Country music

====Neotraditionalist movement====
{{Main|Neotraditionalist country}}
[[File:George Strait 2014 1.jpg|thumb|upright|[[George Strait]], a pioneer of the neotraditionalist movement and dubbed the "King of Country,"<ref name="martings"/> Strait is one of the best selling musicians of all time.<ref name="martings">{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Annie |title=George Strait debuts new single ahead of forthcoming album |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2015/09/23/George-Strait-debuts-new-single-ahead-of-forthcoming-album/8591443038111/ |access-date=January 5, 2021 |work=[[United Press International]] |date=September 23, 2015}}</ref>]]
During the mid-1980s, a group of new artists began to emerge who rejected the more polished country-pop sound that had been prominent on radio and the charts, in favor of more, traditional, "back-to-basics" production. Many of the artists during the latter half of the 1980s drew on traditional honky-tonk, bluegrass, folk and western swing. Artists who typified this sound included [[Travis Tritt]], [[Reba McEntire]], [[George Strait]], [[Keith Whitley]], [[Alan Jackson]], [[John Anderson (musician)|John Anderson]], [[Patty Loveless]], [[Kathy Mattea]], [[Randy Travis]], [[Dwight Yoakam]], [[Clint Black]], [[Ricky Skaggs]], and [[the Judds]].