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  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

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Led by Busby’s machine-gun mandolin riffs and hair-raising tenor, the band had a hard-edged bluegrass-style sound that was a far cry from the homogenized, syrupy country-and-western slop heard around town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I was in this country-and-western musical in the East Village,” she told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1990.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

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

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

As a small child, my repertoire was all country and western, and it was very old country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The storm, dubbed Johannes in Sweden, swept over large parts of the northern half of the country and western parts of Finland.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

Produced by T. Bone Burnett, "Look Up" takes brilliant advantage of Ringo’s longstanding and well-honed country and western affectations.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

The room would host a couple of functions during the week, he recalled, along with special themed evenings such as family night, country and western and disco.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024

The worst thing, though, was that he had turned the radio on and was listening to country and western music!

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis