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Also Known As hillbilly music • country and western

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Carter Family
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, features a modern curved facade, tall windows, and a tower, with a grassy lawn and benches in front.
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, a large red brick building with arched windows and white trim, known as the former home of the Grand Ole Opry.
Minnie Pearl and Hank Snow
Country singer Roy Acuff plays with a yo-yo on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, while a man in work clothes bends down to watch.
The Carter Family performs on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1951, with Maybelle Carter on guitar, Helen Carter on accordion, and June Carter Cash and Anita Carter singing at a microphone.
Hank Williams performs with the Drifting Cowboys on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1951, with a microphone labeled WSM Grand Ole Opry and a backdrop reading Joe's Place.
Marty Robbins stands at a microphone playing guitar and singing on stage with band members at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1950s.
Earl Scruggs, left, plays banjo and Lester Flatt, right, plays guitar as they perform with The Foggy Mountain Boys at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee around 1960.
Loretta Lynn sings and plays guitar on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, her name visible on the guitar strap, in a black and white photo from the early 1960s.
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