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• country-and-western
  country-and-western

  noun

  country music.
• country and western
  country and western

  noun

  another name for country music

country-and-western

American  

[kuhn-tree-uhn-wes-tern] / ˈkʌn tri ənˈwɛs tərn /

noun

1. country music.

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country and western British  

noun

1. another name for country music

2. a fusion of cowboy songs and Appalachian music

3. ( as modifier )

   country-and-western music

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Etymology

Origin of country-and-western

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Their break came when a record executive, Charles Spurling, heard them play and enlisted them as the band for blues and black country-and-western acts such as Bill Doggett, Hank Ballard and Arthur Prysock.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

One poem, by the late 18th-century Maluli, slowly drains all the country-and-western heartbreak from the refrain, “What’s it to you?”

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

“If music has something to say to you, whether it’s jazz, country-and-western, Indian music or Asian folk music, go ahead and use it,” Mr. Coryell told an interviewer in 1968.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

Once upon a time in country-and-western: “American Masters” remembers the supergroup formed by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash in the new episode “The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2016

I knew I sounded snotty, but like the first notes of a country-and-western tune, these days the mere mention of Fang gave me an uncomfortable twang.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx