Sentence examples for mainstream country from inspiring English sources

"Mainstream country, it's smart music," he says.

Last week Americana as a genre outsold mainstream country music.

Most strikingly, she displayed an able grasp of mainstream country theatrics.

Mainstream country women, meanwhile, an endangered species these days at any age, have it worse.

Neither of those artists made mainstream country songs about their sexual orientation.

Over the last several years, mainstream country radio has become an increasingly youth-fixated format.

Even before the incident, the Dixie Chicks had started to stray from mainstream country.

Current mainstream country music, though, has emphatically ejected its older stars from the larger conversation.

It's hard to not get cynical about mainstream country music sometimes.

It wasn't the direction mainstream country would eventually take, but it survives in the twangy, tenacious music now called Americana.

The playlist is long on mainstream country hits and security-blanket oldies like Willie Nelson's version of "Over the Rainbow".