Did the Beatles pioneer Folk Rock and Country Rock

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   Well Bungalow Bill has a little twangy style, Rocky Raccoon also. Piggies is very English folk . 

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tszirmay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673	Posted: July 26 2008 at 22:25
	Well Bungalow Bill has a little twangy style, Rocky Raccoon also. Piggies is very English folk .
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	The only Beatles songs I can think of off the top of my head that I can really notice a country influence are What Goes On, Don't Pass Me By, and Octopus's Garden (which were either cowritten or written by Ringo). As far as I'm aware, Ringo was the only Beatle that really like country music, and since he wrote (according to a Beatles book I own) 2.7 Beatles songs, I don't think there was a whole lot of country going on. Or at least they didn't do much more than delve into it. I have heard some people refer to Michael Nesmith (one of whose albums, incidently, is my avatar) as the "father of country rock." He released a series of country rock albums in the early 70's, I believe around the same time that artists like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and the Flying Burrito Brothers were releasing similar music. He also wrote several country influenced songs for the Monkees, recorded as far back as 1966.

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	Ok I find this on my research on the Byrds. The Beatles could have invented both Country and Folk Rock? Beatles fanatics claim that the Fab Four invented pretty much every recent style of popular music from folk-rock to psychedelic to heavy metal. When it comes to country rock (another claimed Beatles innovation) they might have something of a point. Steve Earle called Beatles For Sale the “hillbilly Beatles record.” It's no question that The Beatles were fans of country music and incorporated some country sounds into their music. Their record contract apparently included a provision calling for them to receive advance copies of all Buck Owens’ releases. You can hear some Beatles' twang in this track from the Hard Day’s Night soundtrack: The Beatles – I’ll Cry Instead (mp3) (buy album) (1964). More twangy Beatles' songs from 1964-1966 include I’m A Loser, Baby’s In Black, Honey Don’t (Carl Perkins cover), I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party, Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (Rex Griffin cover), Act Naturally (Buck Owens cover), I’ve Just Seen a Face, Run For Your Life, and What Goes On. www.settingthewoodsonfire.com/2008/03/who-inevnted-country-rock I started recognizing that the Beatles were using a lot of folk music chord changes. I thought, `Well, what if I experiment with some of these folk songs that I know.' So, I actually put folk and rock together in New York, before I came out to L.A. and the Byrds formed." . The Byrds Roger McGuinn weeklywire.com/ww/07-02-97/austin_music_feature1.html
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