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Old-timey Mountain music is a genre of North American folk music that is mostly played on stringed instruments such as the fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin. Over the years,  whistles, harmonica, ukulele, accordion, bones, jaw harp, and other folk instruments have been included. This music is of the people from a time with no television or radio when families would roll up the rug to dance and sing with friends and neighbors. It was called country music until recordings brought commercial success to acts like the Carter Family, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Poole, the Skillet Lickers, Fiddling’ Arthur Smith, and more. The evolution of rural string band music into a more sophisticated style called bluegrass after WWII, fueled the growing recording industry and the popularity of national radio shows like the WSM Grand Ole Opry and The Louisiana Hayride. This evolution, led by the record companies, defined the music more clearly.