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In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.
Refracted through a British prism, these styles became Merseybeat , the sound of the Beatles . Bob Dylan and The Byrds expanded rock's themes to include the poetic and the political, while Eastern influences and psychedelic drugs changed the music and the culture.
Its instrumentation tends toward authentic-sounding fiddles and steel guitars, but its sources are people like Neil Young--who shows up in Wilco's and Son Volt's maundering ballads--and the Byrds, whose country-rock Sweetheart of the Rodeo album appears in nearly everything.