On ITV's regional news show London Tonight, Brooks was described as " a top-selling, rooting tooting, cotton picking, Country and Western star, yeeha!

He is featured extensively on recordings of Country / Indie star Neko Case.

In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance.

* Randy Travis – Country music star Randy Travis, like Griffith a North Carolina native, appeared in the season six episode " The Big Payoff " ( 1992 ) as Billy Wheeler.

* Conway Twitty, Country and Western music star.

With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was to be named the most promising male country star of 1955.

Tomlin is set to star in Reba McEntire's new TV series Malibu Country as Reba's character's mother Lillie Mae.

In 2012, she will star in two films competing for the Palme d ' Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival ; Love and In Another Country.

* Diddy Kong, who debuted in Donkey Kong Country, is a monkey in a red baseball cap and T-shirt, then later bearing a yellow star on the back.

It was announced in June 2010 that Steenburgen would star in a 2011 FX pilot, Outlaw Country.

Country star Kenny Rogers also issues a disco influenced album, entitled Kenny.

*" Country " comedian and Grand Ole Opry star Minnie Pearl makes her first appearance on Hee Haw.

Country star Willie Nelson believed the 1983 Academy Award-winning film Tender Mercies, about the life of fictional singer Mac Sledge, was based on the life of Merle Haggard.

Then Country pop star Faith Hill also took home 3 awards for Best Country Album for the album Breathe, Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song's title track and for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Tim McGraw for " Let's Make Love ".

Country music star Dierks Bentley is from Phoenix and Michelle Branch is from Sedona.

On 13 January 2007, Klass appeared on the BBC One quiz programme Your Country Needs You, featuring in the England team alongside EastEnders star Perry Fenwick.

For the first time in 2005, Anguilla was home to a Country Music Festival, which was promoted by American country star Billy Ray Cyrus ; in addition to Cyrus and other American musicians.

Country star Tammy Wynette was born on the Mississippi / Alabama line.

George Strait, a neo-traditionalist whose national success began in the early 1980s, enjoyed success as both a radio artist ( 17 No. 1 songs ) and as a movie star ( 1993's Pure Country ).

Known as the " King of Country Music ," Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and " hoedown " format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.

The UK publication Country Music People also gave her a five star review saying " As we lament the death of Slim Dusty, here is evidence that authentic, yet contemporary Australian bush country has not died with his passing.

* Pendleton Vandiver – fiddler and uncle of bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, who immortalized him in the song " Uncle Pen " and in the Country Boy music video for Ricky Skaggs

* Jana Jae, Country music artist, violinist / fiddler

In 1992, Wariner received his first Grammy Award, for Best Country Vocal Collaboration, as a guest vocalist and guitarist alongside Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and fiddler Mark O ' Connor on the single " Restless ", a No. 25-peaking single from O ' Connor's album The New Nashville Cats.

She lived there in the 1960s with her boyfriend Country Joe McDonald.

* 1977 – Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bloodline and Black Country Communion )

Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.

* Working in partnership with Country Joe McDonald to honor veterans by bringing the “ Wall that Heals ”, a Vietnam War memorial, to Berkeley in honor of those who served, died and protested that war.

The special guest that day was Barry Melton, " the Fish " of Country Joe and the Fish fame.

** Country Joe McDonald, American musician

In 2010, Hughes formed Black Country Communion with Jason Bonham ( drums ), Joe Bonamassa ( guitar ) and Derek Sherinian ( keyboards ).

Country Joe and the Fish came from The Instant Action Jug Band.

The Fantasy Faire & Magic Festival was held at Devonshire Downs ( sometimes known as Devonshire Meadows ) in 1967, featuring music acts such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, The Grassroots, Canned Heat, and Iron Butterfly.

In 1980, after appearing on the New Faces Show at the Country Radio Seminar, ( which also featured newcomer Reba McEntire ), RCA's Joe Galante came back to his office raving about a young band he'd seen.

* " Mara ", a song by Country Joe and the Fish

Country rock has survived as a cult force in Texas, where acts including The Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and California-based Richard Brooker, have collaborated and recorded.

Country Joe McDonald resided in Piedmont in the 1970s.

El Monte was home to musicians Gregg Myers and Joe McDonald, who performed in the 1960s with Country Joe & the Fish.

* Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin's first band, lived in Lagunitas from 1966 – 1967, next door to Country Joe and the Fish and the Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Loma Linda Country Club was created by Joe Blau of New York and the late Ted Hoffman in 1971.

* Billy Joe Shaver, Texas Country Music Hall of Fame singer and songwriter

The lineup included Santana, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Youngbloods, Country Joe and the Fish, It's A Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Muddy Waters, Buffy St. Marie, John Fahey, guitarist: Sandy Bull, Seattle psychedelic band Easy Chair and others.

Dennis Thompson asserted years later that " Country Joe " McDonald ( Country Joe and the Fish ) was also present at the scene ( Thompson, 2000 ).

Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Howlin ' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, the Youngbloods, John Hammond, Jr., The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Michael Bloomfield, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, The Chambers Brothers, Canned Heat, The Fugs, Odetta, Country Joe and the Fish, all played there.