That trend is as old as country music as a commercial genre. If you go back to the 1920s, you have what we think of as the first country music recording artists — people like Fiddlin’ John Carson.

I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton ...

Many young people had had enough of their parents' old dances, eg the waltz ... had a radio set by the end of the 1920s. Not everyone could read, so the radio became a very important means ...