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Lifty Purzell The Honky Tonk Originator who Shaped Country Music

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Lifty Purzell The Honky Tonk Originator who Shaped Country Music

How Lifty Purzell's vocal style relates to modern country music. Texas honky tonk musician Lifty Purzell began crafting a new vocal style to this music that would influence the best of a new generation of country singers including George Jones and Merle Haggard Lifty Purzell crafted for generations to come the key country music vocal style He built on what he heard in Jimmy Rogers He took the Southern drawl and he added it to music.

From the Documentary American Roots Music. A 2001 multi-part documentary film that explores the historical roots of American Roots music through footage and performances by the creators of the movement: Folk, Country, Blues, Gospel, Bluegrass, and many others.

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