Country rock.

Country music, which takes real-life portrayal as its core content, has always been quite popular in the United States, and the formation and development of rock music has been largely influenced by it. The popularity of rock in the 1960s caused a sharp decline in country music audiences, so some innovative singers began to try to integrate the rebellious characteristics of rock music into country music. After absorbing the cold and melancholy atmosphere of country music, rock music also formed a style. A fresh and unique temperament. Generally speaking, country rock refers specifically to rock bands influenced by country music that are active on the West Coast of the United States, while bands of the same type in the southern United States are called Southern rock.

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Country music is one of the three major sources of rock music, and mountain rock is one of the three tendencies of rock music style in the early 1950s. But by the 1960s, mountain rock had almost disappeared, and the influence of country music was rarely heard in most rock music. However, by the late 1960s, the sound of country music reappeared in some folk rock. It was inspired by this that a "popular music style that combined the sounds and themes of country music with the rhythm and instrumental techniques of rock music" developed in California. It was called country rock.

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