New Orleans is the home of jazz music; Detroit the home of Motown. Memphis gave us Elvis, Seattle gave us grunge, and the Bronx gave the world the hip-hop sound. And when it comes to country music, one US city eclipses all the rest: Nashville, Tennessee . Today, Nashville is the epicenter of country music. Just like actors flock to Los Angeles and Broadway hopefuls make a beeline for New York, anyone hoping to make it big in the world of country music will eventually find themselves in Nashville. With its never-ending string of honky tonks, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and iconic performance venues like the Ryman Auditorium, country music is ingrained into the very fiber of present-day Nashville – but it wasn't always this way. The evolution of country music Like many forms of popular music, country music went through an evolution. It began developing in the 1920s as a mix of the “hillbilly” sounds of Appalachian folk music, western swing, and even the blu...