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Bruce Springsteen and Sammy Hagar at the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year Gala honoring Jon Bon Jovi held at The Los Angeles Convention Center on February 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)
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American singer and songwriter Bobbie Gentry posed sitting on a park bench in a London square on 13th October 1969. (Photo by Larry Ellis Collection/Getty Images) -
CIRCA 1960: Fred Foster (1931 – 2019), president of Monument Records, poses with his newest signees, Fred Carter (left) and Willie Nelson in circa 1960. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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CIRCA 1959: Country singer Kitty Wells poses for a portrait holding an acoustic guitar in circa 1959. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) 4 Country Songs From the 1950s and 1960s That Signaled a Huge Style Shift
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – NOVEMBER 19: EDITORIAL USE ONLY Vince Gill accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during the 59th Annual Country Music Association Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for CMA)
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Tears For Fears performs on stage, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1985. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) -
British singer and musician Mick Jagger (Michael Phillip Jagger) sitting beside British guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones wearing woman clothes. The two are founding members of British band The Rolling Stones. 1967 (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images) -
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Pop group The Byrds (l to r): Chris Hillman; Dave Crosby; Mike Clark; Jim McGuinn; and Gene Clark. (Photo by ยฉ Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
