Genre: Country Music

Country musics roots go way back. In fact, the original style came from the music played in early american history. Usually the music was sung with a guitar and an occasional fiddle and banjo, and if you listen to some of the older artists such as Merle Haggard and Hank Williams, Sr., you can hear just the basic instruments sung in an old folk like way. However, as time moved on the genre of Country music has changed considerably. You have many artists that stuck to the mainstreams that defined the genre, but than you artists like Shania Twain who like to mix their music up and go down another trail. In fact, most people will agree the country music of today does not sound at all like the country music of the eighties, nor the eighties like the seventies. Through time one artists shifts a little as though to be daring, and some people like him and others follow his path. However, interestingly enough, it seems that if they wear a cowboy hat to sing, then......... tada...... their a country singer. However, i have one question? Their are lots of sub genres for a lot of genres. Why does country music not have so few, if any?