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ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER ARTISTS. WELL, JUNE IS RECOGNIZED AS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH THAT DATES BACK TO 1979 AS BLACK MUSIC MONTH. UNDER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, THE MONTH CELEBRATES THE CONTRIBUTIONS BLACK ARTISTS HAVE MADE TO AMERICAN MUSIC GENRES. �������� 13 S MYA CALEB SAT DOWN WITH A LOCAL COUNTRY ARTIST WHO SHARED HIS LOVE FOR THE GENRE AND ITS HISTORY. MICHAEL WARREN IS A BIRMINGHAM BASED COUNTRY ARTIST WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE GENRE AT AN EARLY AGE. I FEEL LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC CHOSE ME. HE’S BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR 20 YEARS. HE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE GENRE THROUGH EXPLORING HIS FATHER’S EXTENSIVE MUSIC COLLECTION. KIND OF EXPLORED OTHER GENRES. FOLK LIKE. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, JAMES TAYLOR, BOB MARLEY AND JAMES TAYLOR, WHICH IS ONE OF THE ARTISTS THAT I ABSOLUTELY JUST GRAVITATED TO BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR, HIS VOICE, AND IT JUST TOLD STORIES. AS A LOVER OF MANY MUSIC GENRES, HE RECOGNIZES THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY SOUND AND ITS ORIGINS IN BLACK MUSIC, COUNTRY MUSIC. I MEAN, IF YOU GO BACK TO IT, IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE BLUES. COUNTRY MUSIC IS THE BLUES WITH THE CHORD PROGRESSIONS, WITH THE STORYTELLING CAME FROM THE BLUES, THE DELTA BLUES AND AND SLAVE MUSIC AND AND IT’S TURNED INTO WHAT IT’S TURNED INTO NOW. IT’S A HISTORY THAT’S ACKNOWLEDGED AND CELEBRATED DURING AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH. BLACK MUSIC HAS INFLUENCED EVERYTHING FROM ROCK TO TO TO R&B TO BLUES TO EVERYTHING. IT ALL KIND OF STEMS BACK TO BLACK MUSIC. SO TO HAVE A MONTH THAT KIND CELEBRATES THAT AND AND SHINES A LIGHT ON THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THE MUSIC OUT AND CREATED IT FOR A WHOLE WORLD TO ENJOY IS VERY SPECIAL TO ME. WARREN CHOOSES TO HONOR THAT HISTORY THROUGH THE SONGS HE SINGS. HE CALLS HIS MUSIC SOMETHING HE’S GLAD HE CAN SHARE. BROKEN DREAMS, DANCING AND OUT OF THE BEEN. THERE WE GO WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOREVER IN BESSEMER MYA CALEB. CAUSE IT WAS JUST MY DAD AND ME.