Country music found its beginnings in the early 1920s when folk music was taken one step further.  Over the past 80+ years, it has included the honky tonk sound of Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams, the country western sound of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers that centered on the pains and sorrows of life on the western frontier, the rockabilly sound of the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley in the 1950's, and the Nashville sound in the 1960's of Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins.

Although country music has changed dramatically over the years, it owes its popularity to all of these pioneers of the sound of country music.

  

   

 

 

Freddy Fuller aka "The Singing Cowboy" and his BellJam Band is performing at the Cove Opry.  The band consists of some of the best pickers in the entire state of Texas, LaRon Tubb of Salado on keyboards, David Scafe of Temple on drums, Greg Whitfield of Round Rock on guitar, Melissa McGee on percussion and vocals, Bruce Copeland of Temple on bass guitar, Mark Fuller on sound, and Freddie Fuller on guitar and vocals.  Fuller has successfully produced the Bell County Jamboree in Temple for the past five years.  Fuller also produces a one man show that he performs at schools statewide, "The History of the Texas Cowboy circa 1850-1900.  Fuller, a native of Salado, recently completed his second CD entitled "To Sing Once Again".

  

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