Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s.

It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of United States, such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk music), and blues music.

Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies.

Accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas.

In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States.

Accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas.

One of the most popular programs was a live country-music variety show called the "Grand Ole Opry".

It was broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee, which had become the centre of the country-music business.

Honky tonk music first developed in the 1940s in working-class honky tonk bars near the oil fields of Texas.

Honky tonk bands usually included acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, fiddle, stand-up bass and drums, and honky tonk songs were often about loneliness, love, heartbreak and pain.