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Al Hopkins
Albert Green Hopkins (1889 – October 21, 1932)〔(Hillbilly Music: Biographies: The Hill Billies ), Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 19 August 2007.〕 (Al Hopkins) was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music",〔David Sanjek, "All the Memories Money Can Buy: Marketing Authenticity and Manufacturing Authorship", p. 155–172 in Eric Weisbard, ed., ''This is Pop'', Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01344-1 (paper). p. 156–157.〕 though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation.〔
Hopkins played piano, an unusual instrument for Appalachian music.〔 The members of the band that brought him to fame (which was known by several names: The Hill Billies, Al Hopkins' Original Hill Billies, and Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters〔) came variously from Hopkins' own Watauga County, North Carolina, and from Grayson and Carroll Counties in Virginia.〔Archie Green, (Hillbilly Music: Source & Symbol (part 2) ), Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 19 August 2007.〕〔David Sanjek says "North Carolina and Kentucky", but it is an aside in an article not focused on Hopkins or his group.〕 Although the group formed up in 1924 in Galax, Virginia,〔 they were based in Washington, D.C.,〔 and performed regularly on WRC.〔 In 1927 they became the first country musicians to perform in New York City. They were also the first to play for a president of the United States (Calvin Coolidge, at a Press Correspondents' gathering) and the first to appear in a movie (a 15-minute Warner Bros./Vitaphone short released along with Al Jolson's ''The Singing Fool'').〔〔
==Family and musical influences==
Hopkins was born in Watauga County, North Carolina, an area known for the richness of its folk culture. His father, John Benjamin Hopkins, a sometime North Carolina state legislator, built organs as a hobby, played the fiddle, piano, and organ, and had a good repertoire of traditional fiddle tunes. His mother, Celia Isabel Green Hopkins, sang old ballads and church music, among other tunes. Hopkins and his siblings all showed musical talent early. In 1904 the family moved to Washington, D.C., and Hopkins' father went to work for the United States Census Bureau. His sister Lucy later remarked that Al and his brothers and sisters also had plenty of exposure to the popular music of the time.〔
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