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Classic Country Music

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Circular plucked instrument that drives classic bluegrass breakdowns (5)
First name of the singer who advised women to Stand by Your Man (5)
Music ____: historic district centered on 16th and 17th Avenues South (3)
Coal Miner's Daughter who sang fearlessly about birth control and marital strife (7)
Vocal emotion Roy Orbison famously immortalized in his operatic classic (6)
Surname of the booming baritone known as the Man in Black (4)
Tennessee capital celebrated as the epicentre of the music business (9)
Longest-running radio broadcast in American history, for short (4)
Virtuoso guitarist Atkins who pioneered the lush Nashville Sound (4)
Oak circle cut from the Ryman and placed at the center of the new Opry House (5)
Catchy, recurring refrain of a country song that crowds belt out together (6)

First name of Monroe, widely revered as the Father of Bluegrass (4)
Distinctive nasal resonance heard in vintage honky-tonk vocals (5)
First name of Haggard, the poet of the common working man from Bakersfield (5)
Clear-channel medium that beamed barn dances to rural listeners across America (5)
First name of Owens, the bright architect of the Bakersfield sound (4)
Glittering faux diamond decorating the elaborate custom suits made by Nudie Cohn (10)
Feat of a country recording achieving simultaneous success on the mainstream pop charts (9)
First half of the rough-and-tumble saloon subgenre that preceded pop crossover (5)
Acoustic, high-tempo style pioneered by Bill Monroe and his Mountain Boys (9)
First name shared by both Strait and the legendary Jones (6)
Grooved analog disc format that spun classic albums at thirty-three RPM (5)
Studio track preserved forever on shellac or magnetic tape (6)
Rapid vocal transition between chest voice and falsetto perfected by Jimmie Rodgers (5)