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The birth of the country music genre first emerged in the 1900’s. It was called hillbilly music at the time and then during 1925 at the pinnacle of the American jazz craze a Nashville, TN WSM radio station they took notice. A radio host by the name of George Hay took the WSM Barn Dance and introduced it as what we know as the Grand Ole Opry.
