Country Quizzin’: Country-Rock
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
UPDATED
I’m really glad I let y’all go rogue again this week; as you’ll see in the comments, there was some really informative, really amusing stuff firing around today! I know this format kind of weeds out some folks, but I’d like to thank those of you who braved it out. I certainly learned a great deal from reading through the thread.
Here are this week’s top three scores. This was easily the hardest week yet to grade, so feel free to question me, although I’ll note that it won’t make a difference in deciding who this month’s winner is.
15/15 – Sam G. | pselby | Erik North
14.5/15 – Paul Dennis
14/15 – BLL | Hollerin’ Ben
And here are the final results for the month of April. Please join me in congratulating our newest addition to the Winners’ Circle!
42 – Sam G.
39.5 – Paul Dennis
38.5 – pselby
37 – BLL
30.5 – Michael
Thanks so much for playing, y’all! I hope you’ll join us again next week for a new month of Country Quizzin’! – DM
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Hey again, quizzers! Welcome to the final installment in our April investigation of sub-genres and relatives of country music. This week, you’ll be contemplating some of the finer points of country-rock.
More so than any other sub/relative genre featured this month, the development of country-rock factors prominently into the nature of current mainstream country. The musical cross-pollenations conducted by some of the artists featured this week played a huge role in opening the commercial and creative doors for modern mainstream artists to perform the kind of genre-straddling music they do, even as many of the artists below never reached as wide an audience as those they eventually influenced. Country-rock also formed the bedrock of what would later be termed “alt-country,” so that impact is also demonstrated by some of the artists below.
Anyways, this week’s quiz will employ the same “jot down what you know about X Artist” format as last week’s, because I think that makes for a more interesting and informative pool of information than I alone could provide for this sort of subject; however, taking into account that this format is inherently more time-consuming for the commenter, I am extending the period you have to take the quiz by an hour, just for this week while we’re still using this format. That means you should have your answers submitted by 11:30 EST, at which point I’ll reveal the answers and rankings and everyone’s comments will become visible. I apologize if anyone is radically opposed to this format; I’ll change it up next month again, promise!
Without further ado:
For each person/place/thing identified, briefly summarize whatever you personally know on the subject, particularly in relation to the subject’s blending of country and rock. As always, if you know nothing, you may earn partial credit for absurd made-up information.
1) Gram Parsons (who else?) -
2) Eagles -
3) Linda Ronstadt -
4) “Bakersfield Sound” -
5) Emmylou Harris -
6) Steve Earle -
7) Michael Nesmith -
8) Poco -
9) The Rolling Stones -
10) Neil Young -
11) The Outlaw Movement -
12) Bob Dylan -
13) Rodney Crowell -
14) Uncle Tupelo -
15) Whiskeytown -
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