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\nThe pioneers of Country music just sound Country, even by their first names. (Roy, Hank, Gene). Which is why Clarence Albert Pointdexter simply had to go.
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\nSo how do you get from Clarence to country?
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\nSome call Dexter the father of honky tonk music, which can be a bit confusing without musical accompaniment. You see, there\u2019s blues piano honky-tonk, a rollicking bridge between ragtime and boogie-woogie. But as you can hear, this is the other honky-tonk\u2026another bridge, from Western Swing to what we now call \u201cCountry\u201d.
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\n(Pencil scribble effects courtesy of mckinneysounds via http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/scribbles)