When did country song appear on the music scene?
Country music developed out of older, traditional, rural American folk songs and dance music played on fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, guitar, and other instruments from the earliest days of America. The first country music artist to be commercially recorded was a fiddler from Texas named Eck Robertson, whose first record was “Arkansas Traveler” (played as a duet with fiddler Henry Gilliland) on one side, and “Sally Gooden” played as a solo by Robertson on the other side. This record was released on Victor Records in 1922. Other records by other traditional Southern fiddlers followed, along with records by traditional singers, banjo players, guitarists and string bands throughout the 1920’s. The Carter Family, one of the most influential country vocal groups ever to record, were discovered and first recorded in 1927, at the same audition that also led to the discovery of another legendary country singer, Jimmie Rodgers, the “Yodeling Brakeman”. The bottom dropped out of the country music mark
