{"id":10595,"date":"2012-05-30T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2012-05-03T04:21:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:21:31","slug":"country-music-was-originally-called-hillbilly-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/country-music-was-originally-called-hillbilly-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Music was Originally Called &#8220;Hillbilly Music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/country-music-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10615\" title=\"country music facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/country-music-facts.jpg\" alt=\"country music facts\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/country-music-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/country-music-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Country music was originally called &#8220;hillbilly music&#8221;.\u00a0 In the 1940s, Ernest Tubb helped re-brand this type of music &#8220;country music&#8221;. In an interview about this, Tubb stated, &#8220;Hillbilly, that&#8217;s what the press used to call it, &#8216;hillbilly music&#8217;. Now, I always said, &#8216;You can call me a hillbilly if you got a smile on your face.&#8217; We let the record companies know that they were producing country music &#8217;cause we all come from the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Music Name Origins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/where-the-term-rock-and-roll-came-from\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music was originally called &#8220;hillbilly music&#8221;.\u00a0 In the 1940s, Ernest Tubb helped re-brand this type of music &#8220;country music&#8221;. In an interview about this, Tubb stated, &#8220;Hillbilly, that&#8217;s what the press used to call it, &#8216;hillbilly music&#8217;. Now, I always said, &#8216;You can call me a hillbilly if you got a smile on your face.&#8217; We let the record [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1883,2561,2562,2464,2463,1112],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-country-facts","tag-country-music-facts","tag-hillbilly-music","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-quick-facts-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10616,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions\/10616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}