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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rob Walker

Why Britain is taking country music to its achy-breaky heart

Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury festival in 2014. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Country music – with its songs about love and loss, trucks and tequila, beers and bust-ups – has long been the melodic backdrop to rural and small town America. Now it’s booming in Britain too.

One look at the digital streaming numbers tells the story. They’ve shot up almost 50% in the past two years, according to new data from the Country Music Association – making country the fastest growing music genre in Britain.

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