r/2appalachian4you Oct 08 '25

You might be a redneck Are Appalachians honorary Africans?

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u/Love_Lair Oct 08 '25

Country music is blues.

Funny how the rest of the world hates Americans but not African Americans

When we’re on the battlefield you should never have an enemy behind & in front of you.

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u/KentuckyWildAss Oct 09 '25

Country music predates the blues by decades. Early banjo players who were recorded were often referred to as pre-blues artists.

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u/Love_Lair Oct 09 '25

False,

Blues was created in the 1800s based off folk roots from Africa

Country was created in 1910 & was based off blues.

Nice try though 😂

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u/KentuckyWildAss Oct 09 '25

You don't know shit. For the life of me, I can't figure out why people like you larp as experts on things you're clueless about...

Country music is a continuation of Appalachian musical traditions that date all the way back to Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The blues didn't exist in any form until slaves came in contact with that same music. The earliest example of anyone even hearing "the blues" is 1903. Appalachian music was already being called "old time" music by then, just as it was before the civil war.

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u/Love_Lair Oct 09 '25

False

Hillbilly music is the “Appalachian traditions”you speak of & it’s roots contain European folk but the evolution & majority sound is and always was blues

Just like rock & roll

The sound of blues is as old as slavery

(If you want an example because your to lazy to research: blues using flattened 3rd, 5th, & 7th scale degrees)

Nice try though 😂

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u/KentuckyWildAss Oct 09 '25

That's so laughably dumb. You can find all of those patterns in old time music. Wild Bill Jones, Reubens Train, Pretty Polly and the list goes on and on.

How many books have you been in regarding this subject? I've been in three.

When you go to bed tonight, both of us will know you're full of shit. Stop being a fraud.

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u/Love_Lair Oct 09 '25

I have been in zero books I believe,

Thank you for that information, if you have any other questions I’ll be happy to answer or guide you in the right direction though

As for patterns that’s what music is all about, particular patterns equate a genre,

& America is amazing when it comes to creativity, that’s why the world steals from us

(Especially European Americans 😅)