

James ”Hutch” Hutchinson is an Ampeg sponsored artist and notably uses an SVT-2 Pro amp. He is also the bassist who has accompanied her during her concerts for several years. According to John Einarson “From a variety of perspectives and motivations, these musicians either played rock & roll attitude, or added a country feel to rock, or folk, or bluegrass, there was no formula”.Bonnie Raitt is an artist who knows how to surround herself with very good musicians and it is notably the bassist James ”Hutch” Hutchinson, who recorded most of the bass tracks on the album, including the song ”I Can ‘t Make You Love Me’. Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris and the Eagles. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States.Ĭountry rock is a subgenre of country music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.

It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s.
