Country music in Atlanta

Atlanta played a major role in launching country's earliest recording artists in the early 1920s — many Appalachian people such as Fiddlin' John Carson had come to the city and area to work in its cotton mills and brought their music with them.

[2] The signal of WSB radio reached far into rural areas and was an important factor in creating country music "stars", similar to the role of WSM in Nashville.

The show aired on WSB radio between noon and 1 pm three times a week, featuring old-time musicians and string bands[3] Other than the WSB Barn Dance and a few other exceptions, most of Atlanta's country radio programs stopped broadcasting by the early 1950s; stations broadcast recorded music.

[5] White flight eventually transformed Atlanta into a majority-black city[6] that had largely abandoned Southern cultural hallmarks such as country music.

Today, Metro Atlanta is home to Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Sugarland, Ray Stevens and Travis Tritt.