: country music—usually hyphenated in attributive use
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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 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 See All Example Sentences for country and western
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