: country music—usually hyphenated in attributive use
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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 From bouncy dancehall riddims and hip-hop production inflections to tender country and western guitar licks, Treasure Self Love distills Iké’s wide range of childhood music into a succinct 11-track study of achieving wholeness by unflinchingly examining the darkest parts of your past.—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025 The song earned Seely her first and only Grammy Award, for best country and western vocal performance in the female category.—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country and western
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