FAMOUS COUNTRY ARTIST AND GROUPS IN THE 1920´s

FIRST COUNTRY ARTIST

• 1929 
, "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" with Carter Family top country record.

• 1928, "Blue Yodel" recorded by Jimmie Rodgers.
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• 1927, The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers make first recordings. "Sleep Baby Sleep".
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• 1926, Formation of The Skillet Lickers. "The Dying Cowboy" with Carl T.
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• 1925, WSM signs on; first WSM Barn Dance. "The Death Of Floyd Collins" recorded by Vernon Dalhart.
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• 1924, "The Prisoner's Song" recorded by Vernon Dalhart becomes first million-selling country record and him was the first country singer to have a nationwide hit in May 1924 with "Wreck of the Old '97".
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• 1923, First radio "barn dance" WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas.
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• 1922 in country music, First commercial recordings of country music by Eck Robertson.
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sources:

http://countrymusic.about.com/od/artistsofcountrymusic/Country_Music_Artists.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_country_music