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Country Music Part 2

NAME: ___________________________________

12/1/21
Across
Maybelle’s style of playing combined picking and ____.
Once on ____, the music would reach beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
Country songs speak of timeless issues like birth, death, longing, loss, salvation, ____, and is life.
Bluegrass isn’t bluegrass if there isn’t any Scruggs style ____.
Ricky Skaggs has been one of the most successful ____ of the bluegrass sound.
Bill Monroe’s voice was higher pitched, ____, pointed, and almost obnoxious.
Emmylou Harris’s passion for ____ songs lead her to the music of the Louvin brothers.
In the 1950’s, there was a ____ in the music scene in the wake of rock and roll.
Country Music was trapped in the ____ Mountains in America’s rural south.
Through the 1940’s-1950’s, bluegrass groups suffered because it was ____.
It is very popular in country music to take something old and make it into something ____.
Country music is passed down from ____ to generation.
The Carter family were the founding people of country music. Sara sang and played the ____ and Maybelle played the guitar.
Strict bluegrass is heavy on the banjo and mandolin but does not have ____.
"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” was written by Ralph Stanley, who was raised in the hills of ____.
Nashville is the home of ____ country music.
When recording, musicians generally had ____ take to get it right with ONE microphone.
Harris blended ____ of people that were rock and roll fans with Carter fans.
At a time when mainstream country music was highly produced and commercially driven, bluegrass was originating its own individual ____ outside of this industry.
People sat around the radio and ____ together to connect with the rest of the world.
During the depression, people switched from using records to using ____ because it was much less expensive.
Down
The Carters would travel around to collect ____ from around the mountains to record.
Styles for playing banjo including two or three finger ____.
Monroe’s group ____ was constantly evolving.
The Blue Grass Boys included the banjo, played by Earl Scruggs, and ____ played by Monroe.
The ____ Brothers performed simple country songs, but with unique harmonies.
By the 1960’s, bluegrass had a revival, as it was closer to the countries ____ roots.
Shows called ____ dances were held with live performers as rural variety shows which was also on the radio.
People learned to sing in ____, which became a training ground for the distinctive harmonies of mountain music.
As ____ became more sensitive as they were developed, subtleties in country music were used more and more.
Country music is built on sound, ____, and spirit.
Many of the younger musicians who came to bluegrass in the 1960’s and beyond, did not want to play the music in the ____ way.
The soundtrack album of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” showcased a range of traditional and bluegrass songs performed by ____ artists.
In the 1930’s, the ____ hit record sales badly. However, music was a sweet release from the harshness of life.
The Stanley Brothers harmonies created a family ____ sound that was eerie and unearthly.
Monroe was looking to build a musical group with many ____.
Traditional country music would find a mainstream audience in the 2000’s with the ____ of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
To compete with rock and roll, country music went ____.
Traditional country music is rooted in America’s past. Many of the songs came over with emigrants from Britain and Ireland and tell of the lives and the values of those first ____ and the hardships they had to overcome.