You don't necessarily have to be from the South to be country. Merle Haggard was from SoCal and he was one of the greatest country singers of all time.
Even after the Gold Rush of 1849, it's really only until the Great Depression with the Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl for farms in the Central Valley (see: Woody Guthrie and the family of the aforementioned Merle Haggard) that California became the highly populated, urbanized state that it is today.
Joggin on the beaches bare
An' I can still hear my poodle yappin'
Chasin' down with home brew
Chasin' down with home brew there
Born in Malibu
Born in Malibu, oh oh
You don't necessarily have to be from the South to be country. Merle Haggard was from SoCal and he was one of the greatest country singers of all time.
people forget california was cowboy country
Even after the Gold Rush of 1849, it's really only until the Great Depression with the Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl for farms in the Central Valley (see: Woody Guthrie and the family of the aforementioned Merle Haggard) that California became the highly populated, urbanized state that it is today.
you could still make jokes about most californians being country hicks in like, the 70s
See: Yosemite Sam
Sure I guess, but all the songs about the Mississippi river and the Bayou really threw me off
Joggin on the beaches bare
An' I can still hear my poodle yappin'
Chasin' down with home brew
Chasin' down with home brew there
Born in Malibu
Born in Malibu, oh oh