Albums in Traditional Country
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When Nashville started churning out slickly produced pop-country during the 1950s through 1970s, singers and musicians in other parts of America kept country's hillbilly and honky tonk roots alive. Johnny Cash created his own distinctive sound in Memphis during the '50s, while in the '60s California artists like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard played twangy music featuring electric guitars and drums, developing what became known as the Bakersfield sound. Although Texans Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were known as "outlaw" country musicians, their music was more faithful to the original spirit of country music than the sounds coming out of Nashville at that time.
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