Country Music Concert Tickets

While country music's history is somewhat cloudy, many people believe that it started with Jimmie Rodgers around 1930. "The Singing Brakeman," as the former railroad worker was known, recorded the first known country songs in 1927, "The Soldier's Sweetheart" and "Sleep, Baby, Sleep." Rodgers, accompanied by only his banjo, sang with sharp inflections, including some yodeling. While Rodgersoutput was modest-he only recorded a handful of songs before dying from tuberculosis-he laid down the foundation for country music.

Country music had began to flourish in the South through the next couple of decades, but it began to be accepted all over the nation in the 1950s, when the genre had its first crossover stars, namely Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline. Reeves landed a popular hit in the middle of the decade with He'll Have to Go, and Cline's voice still appears on commercials and movies alike with Crazy..

But while these genteel acts were making names for themselves, country's bad boys were selling records as well. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard brought a dark (and, in a lot of cases, all too real) side to country music, earning legions of loyal fans for their honesty and straightforwardness.

But it wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that country received true crossover status. With a number of songs with great hooks, Brooks sold out stadiums and venues all over the country, including a memorable concert in Central Park that was recorded for HBO. Brooks has opened the door for all of today's hit artists, and country music hasn't looked back since.

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