country rock

American  

noun

1. a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and country music.

2. Geology. the rock surrounding and penetrated by mineral veins or igneous intrusions.

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country rock ¹ British  

noun

1. the rock surrounding a mineral vein or igneous intrusion

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country rock ² British  

noun

1. a style of rock music influenced by country and western

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Etymology

Origin of country rock

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The Army said the AH-64 Apaches were conducting a training route past the Nashville area, where the country rock artist's hilltop estate is located.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

He applauded the “fearless pioneers” in Christian music who are borrowing “sounds that have been synonymous with country, rock, rap, every ‘more legitimate’ genre.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

“You can get rock ‘n’ roll in country, rock and roll in any kind of music,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

The song, a tasty slice of country rock fueled by Dickey Betts’ twangy guitar, would go on to become the band’s highest charting single at No. 2.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

First, the great diversity of character exhibited by different sets of fissure veins which cut the same country rock seems incompatible with any theory of lateral secretion.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various