* 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion )

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

:* Two American country dance films on DVD: " Country Corners " ( 1976 ), and " Full of Life A-Dancin '" ( 1978 ).

* Bay Area Country Dance Society promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.

* Alan Winston's history survey English Country Dance and its American Cousin

Country, blues, and bluegrass all originate from American folklore.

Renowned studio percussionist Emil Richards had a hammered dulcimer in his giant Emil Richards Collection and used it in numerous soundtracks, especially in those with eastern Indian or American Country themes.

The Oregon Treaty of 1846 divided the Oregon Country along the 49th parallel, the original American proposal.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

3, Karaoke Revolution Party Edition, CMT Presents Karaoke Revolution: Country and Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol.

* 1977 – Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bloodline and Black Country Communion )

* 1956 – Jerry Douglas, American musician and producer ( The Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers )

Country Music Television, RFD TV, and Great American Country currently operate from Nashville.

* 1935 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ( d. 2012 )

The following year, Cruz appeared in her first American film as Billy Crudup's consolation-prize Mexican girlfriend in Stephen Frears ' western film, The Hi-Lo Country.

In late summer 1986 Mary Bailey arranged for Twain to meet John Kim Bell, a half Mohawk, half American conductor who had close contacts with the directors of the Canadian Country Music Association.

Narrated by The Smothers Brothers, the show highlighted some of the unique American musical styles such as Gospel, Big Band, Classical, Country and Rock.

The Big Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by William Wyler.

For instance, in a column discussing Hurricane Katrina, he cited Wikipedia, quoted at length a discussion of Katrina's lessons on American inequality from the Native American publication Indian Country Today, and then included excerpts from a David Brooks column in the New York Times in a discussion of why the events of Katrina illustrated the necessity for global development and redistribution of wealth.

* January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster ( Countdown )

** Ike: Countdown to D-Day, a 2004 American television film

* Durkee, Rob ( 1999 ) American Top 40: the Countdown of the Century New York: Schriner Books

Stevens gave an interview for the radio series, American Country Countdown, hosted by Nashville songwriter and half of the Brooks and Dunn duo, Kix Brooks.

* American Country Countdown, weekly syndicated radio program

* the number of positions on a number of radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40 and American Country Countdown.

American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest: Saturdays Noon-4 pm ( Pop Music Countdown )

Since January 2006, Brooks has hosted American Country Countdown, a syndicated radio countdown show based on Mediabase ( originally was BILLBOARD, from 2006 to August 2009 ), country charts.

The radio program American Country Countdown and the television program Hee Haw each had a feature called the " Bicentennial Minute " during 1975-1976.

Brooks succeeded Bob Kingsley as the host of the radio countdown show American Country Countdown in January 2006.

Ralph " Rags " Morales is an American comic book artist known for his work on various books for DC Comics, including Identity Crisis, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman Confidential, and The New 52 reboot of then Superman-centric Action Comics.

* Benny Brown ( presented ' The American Countdown Show ')

* Keith Olbermann ( born 1959 ), American broadcaster and the host of Current TV's Countdown with Keith Olbermann

As a CHR station, Z103 hosted live-to-air programs from area nightclubs in the city, as well as syndicated shows such as the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, American Top 40 and Canadian Hit 30 Countdown.

As of 2011, CHNO-FM now airs syndicated programs such as the 70s reruns of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, the Classic Countdown with Dick Bartley and the Donny Osmond show.

*" Symphony of Destruction ", a 1993 song from American thrash metal band Megadeth from the album Countdown to Extinction

At the end of each year, Billboard tallies the results of all of its charts, and the results are published in a year-end issue and heard on year-end editions of its American Top 40 and American Country Countdown radio broadcasts, in addition to being announced in the press.

For 27 years, Kingsley was the voice behind the nationally syndicated countdown program, " American Country Countdown " and the two-minute daily " Bob Kingsley with America's MusicMakers.

Kingsley rose to national prominence in 1974 when he became the producer of the nationally syndicated " American Country Countdown " program started a year earlier by Casey Kasem and Don Bustany.

On September 26, 2009, Hot 93. 5 began airing syndicated countdown shows such as the Canadian Top 20 with Jimmy T, American Top 40, Canadian Hit 30 Countdown and Rick Dees Weekly Top 40.

He then faced American catch-wrestler Josh Barnett at PRIDE Critical Countdown Absolute in the second round of the tournament.

Dick Bartley, a popular American radio disc jockey since 21 June 1969, hosts several popular syndicated radio shows of the oldies / classic hits genre, including the current Classic Countdown since 1991 and the Saturday night call-in request show Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits since 1982.

" American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century.