: country music—usually hyphenated in attributive use
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Three-part harmony was like country and western.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2026 British pubs and a Korean honky-tonk Fifty years ago, a fortune teller told Mama Kim to open a country and western bar in Seoul.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025 The music at home pulled her in every direction: The Shadows, Cliff Richard, Motown, pop, soul, calypso, reggae, country and western, soca, Jim Reeves, Bob Marley.—
Dale Berning Sawa,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025 And my dad played rock and roll music and country and western and blues music, and later on gospel music as well – as did my uncles.—
Sid Evans,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country and western