According to the Jacksonville Music Experience, melodies of early Southern country music were heavily influenced by hymns from Black ... Black female country artist at the time, a record she ...

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From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings ... plus interviews with more than 80 country music artists. No-one has told the story this way before.