country song

Honky-tonk musical number

A country song is a piece of music in the country genre—American roots music characterized by acoustic instruments, storytelling lyrics, and themes of heartbreak, drinking, small-town life, trucks, and rural nostalgia.

The term often carries affectionate or ironic connotations about the genre's conventions: That breakup was so bad it could be a country song.

Related

whiskey · cold beer · guitar · fiddle · boots · jukebox · Saturday night · ballad · dusty road · broken heart · lonesome · long gone · drawl · good ol' boy · cowboy boots · cheatin · porch · steel guitar

Categories
Opposites
musical genre

country songelectronica

Synthesized listening music

rap song · house music · industrial music · disco song · jazz standard

cultural identity and values

country songgangsta rap

Urban struggle set to beats

world music · industrial noise

sonic/production aesthetic

country songcomputer-generated music

Sound created by software

chiptune · vaporwave

Family

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

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G