country blues

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times

Country, blues and folk singer Bonnie Raitt won the song of the year award, for her track, Just Like That.

From BBC

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

In a West Virginia coal town, he found what he called “the rarest of all country blues records,” “The Original Stack O’Lee Blues” made by Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull for the short-lived Black Patti label in 1927.

From Washington Post

His earliest records for Sun captured a kinetic blend of country, blues and pop, a hybrid that would become known as rockabilly, while his later years as a Vegas showman established a path toward maturation for generations of pop stars to come.

From Los Angeles Times