Editing Country music (section)

===Western music merges with country===
{{see also|Western music (North America)}}
The country music scene of the 1940s until the 1970s was largely dominated by western music influences, so much so that the genre began to be called "country and western".<ref name="June-Friesen 2011">{{cite web | last=June-Friesen | first=Katy | title=The Cowboy in Country Music | website=Smithsonian Magazine | date=September 7, 2011 | url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-cowboy-in-country-music-71339427/ | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref> Even today, cowboy and frontier values continue to play a role in the larger country music, with [[western wear]], [[cowboy boot]]s, and [[cowboy hat]]s continues to be in fashion for country artists.<ref name="Wide Open Country 2018">{{cite web | title=The Best and Worst Country Fashion Trends in History | website=Wide Open Country | date=August 9, 2018 | url=https://www.wideopencountry.com/country-fashion-trends/ | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref>

West of the [[Mississippi River]], many of these western genres continue to flourish, including the [[Red dirt (music)|Red Dirt]] of [[Oklahoma]],<ref name="Radio Texas, LIVE! 2018">{{cite web | title=What is Red Dirt? | website=Radio Texas, LIVE! | date=April 11, 2018 | url=https://radiotexaslive.com/what-is-red-dirt-music/ | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref> [[New Mexico music]] of [[New Mexico]],<ref name="Latino USA 2017">{{cite web | title=The 10 Best Songs of New Mexico Music, America's Forgotten Folk Genre | website=Latino USA | date=November 8, 2017 | url=https://www.latinousa.org/2017/11/08/10-best-songs-new-mexico-music-americas-forgotten-folk-genre/ | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref> and both [[Texas country music]] and [[Tejano music]] of [[Texas]].<ref name="Dansby 2006">{{cite web | last=Dansby | first=Andrew | title=Freddy Fender, 'giant of Texas music,' dies at 69 | website=Houston Chronicle | date=October 15, 2006 | url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Freddy-Fender-giant-of-Texas-music-dies-at-69-1492844.php | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Texas Highways 2016">{{cite web | title=Little Joe's Big Life | website=Texas Highways | date=December 16, 2016 | url=https://texashighways.com/culture/people/little-joe-hernandez-big-life/ | access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref> During the 1950s until the early 1970s, the latter part of the western heyday in country music, many of these genres featured popular artists that continue to influence both their distinctive genres and larger country music. Red Dirt featured [[Bob Childers]] and [[Steve Ripley]]; for New Mexico music [[Al Hurricane]], [[Al Hurricane Jr.]], and [[Antonia Apodaca]]; and within the Texas scenes [[Willie Nelson]], [[Freddie Fender]], [[Johnny Rodriguez]], and [[Little Joe (singer)|Little Joe]].

As Outlaw country music emerged as subgenre in its own right, Red Dirt, New Mexico, Texas country, and Tejano grew in popularity as a part of the Outlaw country movement. Originating in the bars, fiestas, and honky-tonks of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, their music supplemented outlaw country's singer-songwriter tradition as well as 21st-century [[rock music|rock]]-inspired [[alternative country]] and [[hip-hop music|hip hop]]-inspired [[country rap]] artists.<ref name="Beaujohn 2018">{{cite news |last1=Beaujohn |first1=Andrew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/arts/music/18beau.html |title=Alt-Country Finds Red Dirt Under Its Nails |access-date=September 5, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=November 18, 2007}}</ref>

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File:Cowboy-Boots-And-Hat.png|Example of [[cowboy hat]] and [[cowboy boots]], two prominent components of country music fashion
File:Atypicalwesternshirt.svg|[[Western wear]] shirt design, with [[snap fastener]]s
File:Eakins, Cowboy Singing 1890.jpg|Painting of a [[cowboy]] singing by [[Thomas Eakins]] (1890)
File:Freddy Fender singing in 1977.jpg|[[Freddy Fender]] performing [[Tejano music]] after ''[[The Johnny Cash Show]]'' in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] (1977)
File:Bob&RDR07.jpg|[[Bob Childers]] performing [[Red dirt (music)|Red dirt]] in [[Okemah, Oklahoma]] (2001)
File:Al Hurricane and Al Hurricane, Jr. performing at the San Felipe De Neri 2014 fiestas.jpg|[[Al Hurricane]] and [[Al Hurricane Jr.]] performing [[New Mexico music]] at a fiesta in [[Old Town Albuquerque]] (2014)
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