country-rock

Nashville meets electric

Country-rock is a musical genre blending country music with rock and roll, prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s with artists like the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and the Eagles: Their country-rock sound featured pedal steel guitar over electric rhythms.

In geology, country rock is the existing rock that surrounds and is intruded by igneous formations or mineral veins.

genre

Americana

Heritage artifacts or music

  • EaglesCity of Brotherly Love's NFL team
  • albumUnified collection of recordings
  • rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers

Linda Ronstadt · Neil Young · singer-songwriter · Nashville · Laurel Canyon · seventies · crossover · fusion · blend · hybrid

instrumentation

steel guitar

Slide-played stringed instrument

  • banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
  • fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
  • mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant

harmonica · dobro · acoustic guitar · electric guitar · drums · bass · twang · slide guitar · lap steel · twelve-string

sound

twang

Sharp vibrating sound

jangle · laid-back · mellow · earthy · rustic · melodic · singalong · storytelling · ballad · uptempo

imagery

dusty roads

Unpaved paths with loose soil

blue jeans · cowboy boots · barrooms · honky-tonk · small town · backroads · sunset · highway · wanderlust · Americana

geology

basement

Subterranean building level

sedimentary · bedrock · stratigraphy · outcrop · crystalline · plutonic · formation · substrate · continental crust · igneous

Opposites
musical genre purity

country-rockpure country

Unadulterated rural music genre

traditional country · bluegrass · classic rock · honky-tonk · Nashville sound

musical aesthetic/sound

country-rockelectronic music

Synthesizer-based musical genre

synthpop · techno · EDM · industrial · disco

cultural positioning

country-rockpunk rock

Stripped-down aggressive rock genre

avant-garde · gangsta rap · art rock · experimental music · Afrobeat

Family

country, rock, countries, countrified, countryside, countrymen, countryman, countrywoman, countrywomen

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Rated G