country and western

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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

She got a featured role in the 1983 Robert Duvall movie about a fading country-and-western star, “Tender Mercies,” and clinched her place in Broadway lore by playing Grizabella and singing “Memory” in “Cats.”

From Washington Post • May 30, 2019

“If music has something to say to you, whether it’s jazz, country-and-western, Indian music or Asian folk music, go ahead and use it,” Mr. Coryell told an interviewer in 1968.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

Once upon a time in country-and-western: “American Masters” remembers the supergroup formed by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash in the new episode “The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2016

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