Country - Western - Blue Grass
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Selections below are MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) instrumental files.

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• Achy Breaky Heart • A Fool Such As I • Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away • Almost Persuaded • Always Late • Always on my Mind • Am I Losing You • Am I That Easy to Forget • Auctioneer • Bluegrass Special • Cold Cold Heart • Crazy (1)    • Crazy (2) • Crying Time • El Paso • Faded Love • Foggy Mountain Breakdown • For The Good Times (1) • For The Good Times (2) • Forever and Ever, Amen • Half as Much • Hank Williams Medley • He'll Have to Go • Help Me Make It Through The Night • Hey, Good Lookin' • I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You • I Fall to Pieces • It Only Hurts For a Little While • I Love You So Much It Hurts Me • Jambalaya • Lovesick Blues • Margaritaville • Okie from Muskogie • Orange Blossom Special • Paper Roses • Room Full of Roses • San Antonio Rose • San Antonio Stroll • She Called Me Baby • Slippin' Around • Stand By Your Man • Steel Guitar Rag • Take This Job & Shove It! • Tom & Jerry Bluegrass • The Wild Side of Life (Honky Tonk Angels) • Wildwood Bluegrass • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • Y'all come! • You Win Again • Your Cheatin' Heart     Musical Accompaniments for Soloists     • Achy Breaky Heart     • A Fool Such As I     • Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away     • Almost Persuaded     • All My Exes Live in Texas     • A Thousand Ways     • Always on My Mind     • Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain     • Cold, Cold Heart     • Jealous Heart     • Room Full of Roses Hillbilly Music? Growing up in the city, I didn't have a lot of exposure to country music. Most of the kids I went to school with in Hollywood called it "Hillbilly Music" and dismissed it with snobbish disdain. Sometimes they would condescendingly refer to it as "Mountain William" music. However, when I joined the army in 1949 and went to Fort Ord, California for Basic Training most of my barracks mates were from the South - and country music was the only kind they liked. At the time, the biggest hit in country music was Hank Williams (senior) singing "Lovesick Blues." After hearing the song for 500 times or so, I found myself beginning to like it, and found that I enjoyed hearing Hank sing many other songs as well (the vast majority of which he also wrote). Over time I also found myself getting used to Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell, Little Jimmy Dickens, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Bob Wills, and many other country performers. When I got out of the army and back to Hollywood in 1952, I went back to listening to "city music." In the 1960s, however, I found my musical tastes leaning toward country music that had a more modern sound, as performed by Ray Price, Kris Kristofferson, Tom T Hall, Roger Miller, Teresa Brewer, Kay Starr, and Brenda Lee. In fact, as popular ballads in the style of Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, and the Ink Spots were giving way to the rock styles of the Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Janice Joplin, I found myself listen to more and more country artists, such as Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Patti Page. I did like some of the very early rock 'n' roll of performers such as Bill Haley & the Comets - but the harder the rock got, the less appealing I found it. Eventually, I also gave up on most other country music as it began to sound more rock-like, and featured drums and electronic guitars. I still love the "old time" country music groups, whose only "electric" instrument was a steel guitar, and who never used drums. I also like the fact that much of the older country music is the kind whose melody stays in my head for long after the song is over, and whose lyrics I can understand and sing along with. Not surprisingly, then, most of the country music found on this site is of earlier genres from the 1930s to the 1970s. I hope you enjoy it, too. These selections have been created (sequenced) on an electronic keyboard (or other instrument, such as an electric guitar) which has been connected to a PC, and saved as computer MIDI files. The files can be burned to a CD, but will not work in a regular audio CD player or "boombox." However, they can be played via any standard computer.