Visitors to the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will have until Tuesday, Sept. 16, to see its major exhibition Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, presented by City National Bank. The exhibit, which is closing after a nearly three-year run, explores the L.A.-based communities of visionary singers, songwriters and musicians who created and shaped the musical fusion “country-rock” and made a lasting impact on popular music.
Western Edge surveys the rise of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Eagles, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and others who found commercial success with a hybrid of rock sensibilities and country instrumentation and harmonies. These trailblazers’ musical contributions were expanded upon by the next generation of L.A. roots music per