Does Country Music Exist Outside The United States?

By exist, I mean have an enthusiastic fan base. Are their any non-American country singers? It seems like it's just an American invention that, unlike other American inventions, that just won't cross over into international territory.

 

http://www.allbritishcountry.co.uk

http://ukcountryevents.info

https://www.list.co.uk/events/music/country/

There are a few in UK ,

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEvRqCnfQA

 

We have a large country base in Canada.

Australia also has a country base.

I do not think it is a regional thing.

 

There's a few in Holland

 

The UK has it's country fans, and even a few performers who put on a Stetson and pretend to be cowboys and cowgirls.

A few years ago I lived in a village where the one pub had a country/confederate style of deco. Totally out of place I always thought, but the landlord was a fan.

 

I'm still trying to come to terms with a man asking me to play Travis Tritt on a jukebox in NYC once, i cant think about other countries yet. I genuinely thought it was just a southern US thing until the incident with the jukebox happened

Most country music written after like 1995 is horrible, just throwing that out there

 

Good. That's about when I stopped listening to it.

Yay 90's country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopBvlKfYgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Vjj9XxMHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKAYUShRLy8

 

it seems to me it's mostly city people that listen to country, so someone from nyc seems logical enough. at least, that's the case in my part of the north; rural people either rebel and go all out with the rap music, or they embrace their inner redneck and listen to classic rock. but if you go to the city, there's people rebelling the other way and listening to country music.

 

I'm my part of the country, the opinion of country music is very polarized; folks either love it or they hate it. There's little to no in-between.

I decided that I hated country music when I was still a kid and the radio would keep playing Achy Breaky Heart over and over again. But since then I matured and found some country songs tolerable, if not enjoyable. However I don't pay much attention to it

I do notice that when I'm far from civilization, the radio stations that have the best signal are country music stations for some reason.

 

Same here, but most of the people who like it are a bit white trash, to but it bluntly. I can get down with some old country music (Cash and similar performers)--the rest of the stuff is pretty painful, imo. I guess it's pretty clear which camp I fall into .

Not sure about the answer to the op, however.

 

Keith Urban was born in New Zealand.

 

From Australia.....

 

Yup.

 

Y'all slackers dunno country till y'all done gone done come ova to Germany and swig moonshine with Irm I tell yer hwat.

 

Schlager is the real country.

 

Maybe this explains it:

 

Scandinavian danseband music sure sounds like country to my ear

 

There's schlager, and there's modern schlager.
Kind of the same with country.

edit: one thing is certain: Hansi Hintersee -Ski twist always cracks me up