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country blues

Noun

Meaning

country blues (uncountable)

(music) A genre of blues with a rural style and elements from folk music.

country-blues (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of country blues

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

country-blues

Examples

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. Rick Derringer

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. Alex Chilton

Cody Dickinson, a member of hill country blues bands the North Mississippi Allstars and Country Hill Revue plays an electrified washboard on a self-written track, "Psychedelic Sex Machine". Source: Internet

Cray, Ramblin Man, p. 216. Woody routinely emphasized his working-class image, rejected songs he felt were not in the country blues vein he was familiar with, and rarely contributed to household chores. Source: Internet

Preachin’ country blues with Old Testament vigour, but void of spiritual hypnosis, this Choir rolls out old-timey sounds for folks vehemently clutching their wind-up 78 players. Source: Internet

Performing in between the two is the country blues guitarist Kelvin who hails from nearby Stevenage. Source: Internet

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