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Show A little bit of country mi By BARBARA WALLACE Chronicle Staff Country and western music is the mUsic which used to come from Tebunkhouses and back porches-back porches-back along the side streets and alleys, when the sun was touching down on the horizon-from idle hands, down around the docks reaching for a guitar, a zither or harmonica. It's music as we have it today. It's bits and pieces of yesterday and I'll cover every phase. There'll by hillbilly music, or rather, folk-country. The original country music which sat in the Appalachians, down along the rivers and swamps-ballads, blue-grass blue-grass free and easy banjo-talking, joking fiddle. The music of Pete and Mike Seeger, the New Lost City Ramblers. Rock-country is the next stop with Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Marty Robbins. A bit of blues, a touch of boogies, blue-grass blue-grass and jazz. The introduction of the electric guitar, drums and amplifiers. The music that rocked the "Grand Old Opry." More recent is the advent of the sophisticated pop-country sounds. This music was picked up just as rapidly by non-country fans as by the tried and true. It's the music of Eddie Arnold, Chet Atkins, Lyn Anderson and Glen Campbell. Camp-bell. And through it all, hard-country, the old songs still hanging around-"Cheatin' around-"Cheatin' Heart" and "Cattle Call." New songs too, with the hard sounds of Dolly Parton, Bill Anderson An-derson and Charlie Pride. If you're out someplace on the town where requests are being played, a good percentage of the songs will be hard country-hanging on. Despite the predictions and rumors, hard-country hard-country is still alive. Very few things could go through so many changes and variations, yet still, somehow, remain the same, still retain the down to earth, fresh, untrying qualities. A n CWn' nearawayofliS": YU Probably Wonf. a" answer. "Beca ;f say- lisi I Ttm- is country Vl music. ' So new record J ;,BuckowenS U the charts with X Sweet Baby's Arms; tlng new sound, ma-sentimental. ma-sentimental. This because its Bucko. A new girl, Kenni K A Living Tor,, doesn't look like it j too far. I -On the folk side, an album out, "By r- God." He plays t:J and sings old sir' "Guitar Man" audi- ous ballad, "David ar i 'i |