1960s Country

Rare country footage from the 1960s — interviews, studio sessions, and behind-the-scenes clips. Browse 1 clip below.

Music in the 1960s

The 1960s was a decade of relentless musical innovation. The British Invasion, psychedelia, Motown, folk protest, and the birth of heavy rock all collided. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and James Brown were redefining what popular music could be. Behind the scenes, studios like Abbey Road, Muscle Shoals, and Stax were laboratories of sound. This decade produced some of the most fascinating behind-the-scenes footage ever captured — from D.A. Pennebaker’s fly-on-the-wall documentaries to the Maysles brothers’ concert films.

About Country

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a music genre originating from the United States. It is known for its ballads and dance tunes, identifiable by both traditional lyrics and harmonies accompanied by banjos, mandolins, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar; either acoustic, electric, steel, or resonator guitars. Once called hillbilly music, the term country music was popularized in the 1940s to give it a correct term. Country music was first developed ...

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