country and western
Example Sentences
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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
His lyrics, meanwhile, remain complex and literary even as he mines tried-and-true country-and-western subject matter.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2018
More recently Bridges took on a role originally played by John Wayne in the Coen Brothers’ version of “True Grit” and finally won an Oscar as a country-and-western singer in “Crazy Heart.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2016
It’s not unusual to meet a modern music lover with an iPod full of opera, country-and-western ballads, show tunes, punk-rock classics, hip-hop remixes, celebrity duets and sensitive singer-songwriter self-explorations.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2015
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
