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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

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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

The rawness and the imperfections were something they learned from those influential sounds of ’70s-era experimental rock and hill country blues.

From Seattle Times May 10, 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

It was by country blues guitarist Elizabeth Cotten and her accompanist, Mike Seeger, and arranged after the artist’s higher-profile paying gig was canceled.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2020

Madeleine Peyroux is known as an interpreter of American song, from country blues to jazz to classic rock.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2018

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