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country blues

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noun

  1. (sometimes functioning as singular) acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment Compare urban blues

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Betts joined brothers Duane and Gregg Allman and others in the band, which fused rock with country, blues and jazz to create Southern rock.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

Additional 2023 National Heritage Fellows are Mississippi hill country blues musician R.L.

From Seattle Times Feb. 28, 2023

Cléoma explored new territory on her later records, branching out from traditional Cajun tunes to embrace country, blues and popular songs, most of which she recast into French.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2022

Coltrane sings in Sanskrit, but it instantly leaps continents and epochs to hit like a country blues, voicing the anguish and ache of the present moment.

From Washington Post Jul. 8, 2021

There’s a longer history for country, blues and jazz musicians performing and recording late in life.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2018

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