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Country-rap: Country Music Subgenres
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Tags: country music, genres
Country music is very diverse with multiple sects that all fall under the title "Country". Here are some of those subgenres. What do you know about them?
| | Bakersfield Sound - used Fender Telecaster guitars, a big drum beat, and dance style music that catches the attention; popularized by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard |
| | Bluegrass - fast mandolin, banjo, and fiddle-based music popularized by Bill Monroe and by Flatt and Scruggs |
| | Close harmony |
| | Country folk |
| | Honky tonk |
| | Jug band |
| | Lubbock Sound |
| | Nashville Sound - the pop-like music very popular in the 1960s |
| | Neotraditional Country |
| | Outlaw country - made famous in the 1970s by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, David Allan Coe |
| | Cajun and zydeco |
| | Red Dirt |
| | Western - Western cowboy campfire ballads and Hollywood cowboy music made famous by Roy Rogers, The Sons of the Pioneers, and Gene Autry |
| | Western swing, a sophisticated dance music popularized by Bob Wills |
| | Texas Country |
| | Alternative country |
| | Country rock |
| | Psychobilly |
| | Deathcountry |
| | Rockabilly |
| | Country-rap |
| | Country pop |
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