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Country Rock - An Idiosyncratic History - 5

Artist Song
Ry Cooder  On A Monday 
Pure Prairie League  Tears 
Graham Parsons  Las Vegas 
The Eagles  Take It Easy 
American Flyer  Gamblin' Man 
Linda Ronstadt  It Doesn't Matter Anymore 
Jackson Browne  Rock Me On The Water 
America  Don't Cross The River 
Nicolette Larson  French Waltz 
Bob Dylan  I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 
Crosby, Stills & Nash  Helplessly Hoping 
Brewer & Shipley  Oh Mommy 
Emmylou Harris  Even Cowgirls Get The Blues 
Maria Muldaur  My Tennessee Mountain Home 
The Byrds  Blue Canadian Rockies 
Firefall  Just Remember I Love You 
J. D. Souther  The Moon Just Turned Blue 
Kris Kristofferson  Help Me Make It Through The Night 
Linda Ronstadt  I Fall To Pieces 
John Prine  Spanish Pipedream 
Loggins & Messina  Just Before The News 
New Riders Of The Purple Sage  Panama Red 
Ozark Mountain Daredevils  If You Wanna Get To Heaven 
The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band  Heavenly Fire 
The Byrds  There's A Train Leaves Here This Morning 
The Band  Ophelia 

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Country Rock: An Idiosyncratic History July/September 2006 Page 5/12

What is Country-Rock anyway? There are four views:

1. Country-Rock is country music refined through rock sensibilities.

".those who saw country rock as young longhaired musicians adapting a traditional country music form with a little more emphasis on the rhythm: country music refined through rock sensibilities, attitude and experience. It was rock and rollers, or people who had that look, playing Merle Haggard, Buck Owens,. They looked rock & roll, but played country."

(Chris Hillman) "Country Rock involves taking white blues and adding more backbeat, more emphasis on the rhythm section, adding the ingredient of the black emphasis on the rhythm; giving the white man a little more rhythm, which he desperately needed."

(Graham Parsons) "Cosmic American Music, a bridge between the redneck and the hippie" (all above from Desperado, p.12)

"(Parsons) . presented country music played by musicians who looked like rock musicians, like hippie rock musicians, even." (emphasis in original) (From Eight Miles High, p 178)

".very country in our own West Coast sort of younger-than-a-lot-of-the-musicians-in-Nashville kind of way." (From Eight Miles High, p 183/4)
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Date: 10/4/2006
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