Editing Country rock (section)

==Definition and etymology==
[[Rock and roll]] has usually been seen as a combination of [[rhythm and blues]] and country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s [[rockabilly]].<ref>B. Horner and T. Swiss, ''Key terms in popular music and culture'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999), p. 104.</ref> There has also been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres; however, the term "country-rock" is used generally to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began recording rock songs with country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically [[pedal steel guitar]]s.<ref name="Bogdanov2002C-Rock"/> [[John Einarson]] states that, "[f]rom a variety of perspectives and motivations, these musicians either played country with a rock & roll attitude, or added a country feel to rock, or folk, or bluegrass. There was no formula".<ref>J. Einarson, ''Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), {{ISBN|0815410654}}, p. 1.</ref>

The term ''country-rock'' had rarely been heard until the critic [[Richard Goldstein (writer, born 1944)|Richard Goldstein]] used it the June{{nbsp}}6, 1968 issue of ''[[The Village Voice]]''.{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=176}} In his piece, titled "Country Rock: Can Y'All Dig It?", Goldstein counted several artists as moving towards country-friendly material – including [[Moby Grape]], [[Stone Poneys]], [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]], [[the International Submarine Band]] and [[Bob Dylan]] – but he expected [[the Byrds]]' forthcoming album, ''[[Sweetheart of the Rodeo]]'', to represent the new genre.{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=176}} Before the Byrds' album was released in August{{nbsp}}1968, Goldstein considered [[the Band]]'s debut album, ''[[Music From Big Pink]]'', as the "first major album" of the country-rock movement when he reviewed it for ''[[The New York Times]]'' on August{{nbsp}}4.{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=177}}<ref name=Goldstein>{{cite news|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Goldstein (writer, born 1944)|title='Big Pink' Is Just a Home in Saugerties|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 4, 1968|page=20D|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/04/89134438.html?zoom=14.81&pageNumber=135|url-access=subscription|via=[[TimesMachine]]}}</ref> Key to the genre, Goldstein wrote, was that the album had country music's "twang and{{nbsp}}... tenacity", but it also "[made] you want to move" like rock music.{{sfn|Hjort|2008|p=177}}<ref name=Goldstein />