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Country grew out of the folk music of the American South and the cowboy West, from hymns and fiddle tunes to ballads and work songs. Its early name was hillbilly music, and by 1933 records and radio had made the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers its first stars. The songs usually rest on simple harmonies, repeated choruses and lyrics that often tell a story, played on guitar, fiddle, banjo and pedal steel.
San Francisco’s Steakhouse built “Tantrum” on an old country familiarity and a Cramps-like guitar, and Wood Chickens ran classic country, bluegrass and hardcore together on “Countrycide”. Las Vegas hardcore band SpiritWorld went at it from the other end, with Stu Folsom naming the ten alt-country records behind “Pagan Rhythms”.