List of country genres

This is a list of music subgenres of country music.

• Appalachian folk (a subgenre of Folk music)
• Australian country music
  • Bush band
• Bakersfield sound
• Bluegrass
  • Old-time bluegrass/Appalachian bluegrass
  • Traditional bluegrass/Neo-Traditional bluegrass
  • Progressive bluegrass/Nu-grass
  • Bluegrass gospel
• Bro-country
• Cajun
• Canadian country music
• Christian country music
• Classic country
  • Swamp music
• Country blues (this is also considered a subgenre of Blues)
• Country folk
• Country pop/Cosmopolitan country
• Country rap (this is also considered a subgenre of Hip-Hop)
• Country rock (these are also considered the subgenres of Rock)
  • Alternative country
    • Americana
    • Cowpunk/Country-punk
  • Lubbock sound
  • Rockabilly/Neo-Rockabilly
    • Psychobilly/Punkabilly
      • Gothabilly/Hellbilly
  • Southern rock
  • Tulsa Sound
• Cowboy/Western music
• Dansband music
• Franco-country
• Gulf and western
• Hokum (this is also considered a subgenre of Blues)
• Honky tonk music
• Instrumental country
• Nashville sound
  • Countrypolitan
• Neotraditional country
  • New country
• Old-time music/Hillbilly music (a subgenre of Folk music)
• Outlaw country
• Red Dirt
• Sertanejo
• Southern soul (this is also considered a subgenre of Soul)
• Techno-Country (a Eurodance country style, popularized by the Rednex)
• Texas country
  • Progressive country
• Talking blues
• Tex-Mex/Tejano
• Traditional Country music
• Truck-driving country
• Western swing
• White power country
• Zydeco (a subgenre of Folk music)

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