These two foundational performing acts of commercial country music, The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, illustrate that the music already had different styles that would become important to its development. In this case, it was “Saturday night and Sunday morning.”
As the twentieth century moved forward, and country music started sprouting branches of its own, the various roots would still find expression, and the “Saturday night/Sunday morning” theme would also keep cropping up, sometimes in the same great artist – like Hank Williams, who wrote and performed some raucous honky tonk dance tunes (and lived a raucous life) but also some songs that reflected his upbringing in church music, songs like “I Saw the Light.”
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