country and western music
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Burgess was among a group of singers in the mid-1950s who mixed rhythm and blues with country and western music.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
He was influenced by blues heroes such as Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker, as well as white country and western music, though his singing style owed much to the clarity of Nat King Cole.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2017
The singer, songwriter and visual artist Kurt Wagner has led his band Lambchop into the thistle of Nashville country and western music through a dozen studio albums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
Although their songs were never top airplay hits, the couple's plainspoken style and Joey Feek's sweet, smoky voice earned them a host of fans of traditional country and western music.
From US News ● Mar. 4, 2016
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
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