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Country pop (also known as urban cowboy) is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience. Country pop music blends genres like rock, pop, and country, continuing similar efforts that began in the late 1950s, known originally as the ...
Country pop or soft pop, with roots in the countrypolitan sound, folk music, and soft rock, is a subgenre that first emerged in the 1970s. Although the term first referred to country music songs and artists that crossed over to top 40 radio, country pop acts are now more likely to cross over to adult contemporary music.
Cowpunk/Country-punk; Gothic country; Roots rock; Australian country. Bush band; Bakersfield sound; Bluegrass. Old-time bluegrass/Appalachian bluegrass; Traditional bluegrass/Neo-traditional bluegrass; Progressive bluegrass/Nu-grass; Bluegrass gospel; Blue Yodeling; Bro-country; Cajun. Cajun fiddle; Canadian country. Franco-country; Christian ...
Brown on country, pop following in his crossover path. Other artists are benefitting from Brown's half-decade-long strategy of developing cross-genre friendships and hit-song potential.
Renee Blair. The co-songwriter of HARDY and Lainey Wilson's 2023 country mega-smash "wait in the truck" successfully hid her pregnancy from concert stages, this St. Louis native is poised as a pop ...
Swift had shed the Nashville country roots of her first four studio albums and announced herself a full-fledged pop superstar. “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” out Friday, takes that version of ...
The Nashville sound was pioneered by staff at RCA Victor, Columbia Records and Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee.RCA Victor manager, producer and musician Chet Atkins, and producers Steve Sholes, Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, and recording engineer Bill Porter invented the form by replacing elements of the popular honky tonk style (fiddles, steel guitar, nasal lead vocals) with "smooth ...
Alternative country (commonly abbreviated to alt-country; [1] also known as alternative country rock, [2] insurgent country, [3] Americana, or y'allternative [4]) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and/or country rock that includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music, mainstream country rock, and country pop.