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The first country song is hard to determine due to the evolution of music and the country genre itself. Many historians point to “Fiddling Around” written by Perry Bradford in 1918 as a candidate, which was recorded by a white man named Vernon Dalhart but performed in a minstrel style. On the other hand, Fiddlin’ John Carson, a popular American fiddler who performed around 1923, is often cited as having performed the first country song, which was an improvised version of “The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster’s Going to Crow”. However, the commonly accepted first country record was “Lovesick Blues” performed by Emmett Miller in 1924. It’s important to note that at the time, this music was not referred to as ‘country’. It was originally called ‘old-timey’ or ‘hillbilly’ music. The term