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Country Joe and the Fish
Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic folk-rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965 by Joe McDonald and Barry "The Fish" Melton, known for the antiwar "Fixin' to Die Rag."
Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald (Joseph Allen McDonald, 1942–2026) was an American folk-rock singer-songwriter, leader of Country Joe and the Fish, famed for the anti-Vietnam War "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" and the Fish Cheer at Woodstock 1969; he died in Berkeley from Parkinson's disease.
Country Life (Roxy Music album)
Country Life is Roxy Music's fourth studio album, released 15 November 1974. Known for its censored cover with models Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald, it peaked at No. 3 in the UK and was the band's first US Top 40 album.
Country music
Country music: American popular genre from the rural South, rooted in British Isles folk, blues, and gospel; first recorded 1922 (Eck Robertson), defined by Bristol Sessions, bluegrass, honky-tonk, western swing, and Nashville's industry.
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association is a Nashville-based trade association founded in 1958, the first formed to promote a music genre, known for the CMA Awards and CMA Fest.
Country Music Association Awards
Country Music Association Awards (CMA Awards), peer-voted country music honors first held October 20, 1967 in Nashville; 12 categories chosen by 7,000+ CMA members, airing on ABC since 2006, with the 60th ceremony November 18, 2026 on ABC and Disney+.
Country music festival
Country music festival: multi-day events devoted to country music, from CMA Fest (Fan Fair, 1972, Nashville, longest-running), Stagecoach in Indio, to Tamworth Australia (60,000 visitors), covering history, economics, and audience culture.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Nashville nonprofit museum (chartered 1964, opened 1967 on Music Row, downtown since 2001) preserving country music history and administering the CMA-elected Hall of Fame, 158 members as of 2025.
Country pop
Country pop, also called country crossover, is a music genre blending country songwriting with pop production, emerging in Nashville in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Country rap
Country rap, also called hick-hop, is a music genre combining country music and hip hop, from raps over country instrumentals to country vocals over rap beats.
Country rock
Country rock is a music genre fusing country and western with rock and roll, pioneered around 1967-1969 by the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, smoothed into 1970s mainstream success by the Eagles and Poco, and later feeding alt-country and Americana.
Country Squire
Country Squire (2019) is Tyler Childers's third studio album, released via RCA Nashville and his Hickman Holler imprint, produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson; nine songs, 35 minutes, Metascore 85, first major-label release.
Courage (Celine Dion album)
Courage is the 27th studio album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released November 15, 2019. It is her first English-language work since 2013, tackling themes of grief.
Court and Spark
Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's sixth studio album, released January 17, 1974 on Asylum Records. Her best-selling record, it peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200, yielded the Top 10 single Help Me, and marked her embrace of jazz with the L.A. Express.
Courtney Act
Courtney Act, stage name of Shane Gilberto Jenek (born 1982, Brisbane), Australian drag queen, singer, and TV personality. Australian Idol 2003 semifinalist, Drag Race season 6 finalist, first Australian winner of Celebrity Big Brother UK (2018).
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett (born 1987, Sydney) is an Australian indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, formerly of Milk! Records, known for Avant Gardener, her 2015 Grammy-nominated debut album, and the 2026 album Creature of Habit.
Courtney Cox (musician)
Courtney Cox, known as Adriana Smith and CC Shred, is an American heavy metal guitarist from Philadelphia who played in The Iron Maidens and leads for Burning Witches.
Courtney Hadwin
Courtney Hadwin, British singer-songwriter from County Durham, England, who reached the America's Got Talent season 13 final at age 13 (2018) with a Howie Mandel golden buzzer, then released the debut album Little Miss Jagged in 2025.
Courtney Love
Courtney Love (Courtney Michelle Harrison), American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress, born 1964 in San Francisco; frontwoman of Hole (Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, Celebrity Skin), widow of Kurt Cobain, Golden Globe-nominated actress, subject of the 2026 documentary Antiheroine.
Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine, born 1964 in London, is a British jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist whose 1986 debut Journey to the Urge Within was the first serious jazz album in the UK Top 40; he co-founded the Jazz Warriors, fused jazz with reggae, hip-hop, and drum'n'bass, and holds an OBE and CBE.
Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born 1967, born Courtney Alan Taylor) is the American singer-guitarist and songwriter who co-founded The Dandy Warhols in Portland, Oregon in 1994, known for "Bohemian Like You" and the Odditorium studio.
Cousins (Kanye West song)
"Cousins" (COUSINS), 2025 hip-hop single by Ye (Kanye West), intended second single from unreleased album Cuck; released April 21, 2025 on X, streamed April 23; lyrics by Dave Blunts about West's stated childhood incestuous acts with a jailed cousin; removed from streaming November 2025.
Coven (band)
Coven is an American occult rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, fronted by Jinx Dawson. Its 1969 debut Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls introduced devil horns, inverted crosses, and "Hail Satan!" to rock, predating Black Sabbath.
Cover version
Cover version: a new recording or performance of a song by an artist other than the original performer or composer; also called a cover. Term coined 1965-70; covers may out-chart originals (Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You) and fall under compulsory mechanical licensing in the US.
Covet
Covet: American instrumental math rock band formed 2014 in the San Francisco Bay Area, led by guitarist Yvette Young. Also tagged post-rock; albums Effloresce (2018), Technicolor (2020), catharsis (2023) on Triple Crown Records; not the word or other bands named Covet.
Cowboy Carter
Cowboy Carter (Act II: Cowboy Carter) is Beyoncé's eighth studio album, released March 29, 2024, a country-inflected, genre-blending survey of Black roots in country music; it won the 2025 Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Country Album.
Cowboy Carter Tour
Cowboy Carter Tour: Beyoncé's 2025 stadium tour for her album Cowboy Carter, also called Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour; 32 shows, nine cities, $407.6 million gross, highest-grossing country tour in Boxscore history.
Cowboy Junkies
Cowboy Junkies, Canadian alt-country/folk rock band formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo, Michael, and Peter Timmins and Alan Anton; known for The Trinity Session (1988), recorded on one microphone in a church, and over four million albums sold.
Cowboys and Dreamers
Cowboys and Dreamers is the 31st studio album by American country singer George Strait, released in 2024 through MCA Nashville and his first collection of new material since 2019.
Cowboys from Hell
Cowboys from Hell is Pantera's fifth studio album, released July 24, 1990 on ATCO Records; the Texas band's major-label debut and first platinum album, it shed their glam metal past and pioneered groove metal.