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Recent Examples of countrified
This year's countrified holiday music program will be hosted by Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood and feature a night of spirited Christmas classics.
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Dec. 2024
In the rendition, recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Beabadoobee recasts Carpenter’s acerbic pop-rock hit into something gentler, with a slightly countrified, acoustic-guitar-and-strings arrangement — almost how the Corrs would’ve done it.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
God Save the Animals contains guitar solos, gothic keyboard riffs, spare and off-key acoustic guitar, warbles, countrified fiddle, at least one very thoughtful love song, and (don’t worry) enough moments that sound like Built to Spill.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
The album, his eighth, is chock-full of all the countrified themes that hold sway over his life: good times, the outdoors, the love of a good woman and devotion to family.
—Nancy Kruh, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
Giger’s place in Zurich was on a countrified neighborhood block in a section called Oerlikon.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
The Spanish is paisa — countrified — while the English has the tough tone of someone who grew up off Vermont Avenue.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
The countrified look was a backlash to the urban styles inspired by Miami Vice and Memphis design in the previous decade.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
This is a whole, full-throated countrified musical based around the U.S.’s favorite heavily subsidized grain.
—Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Dec. 2024
In the rendition, recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Beabadoobee recasts Carpenter’s acerbic pop-rock hit into something gentler, with a slightly countrified, acoustic-guitar-and-strings arrangement — almost how the Corrs would’ve done it.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
God Save the Animals contains guitar solos, gothic keyboard riffs, spare and off-key acoustic guitar, warbles, countrified fiddle, at least one very thoughtful love song, and (don’t worry) enough moments that sound like Built to Spill.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
The album, his eighth, is chock-full of all the countrified themes that hold sway over his life: good times, the outdoors, the love of a good woman and devotion to family.
—Nancy Kruh, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
Giger’s place in Zurich was on a countrified neighborhood block in a section called Oerlikon.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
The Spanish is paisa — countrified — while the English has the tough tone of someone who grew up off Vermont Avenue.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
The countrified look was a backlash to the urban styles inspired by Miami Vice and Memphis design in the previous decade.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
This is a whole, full-throated countrified musical based around the U.S.’s favorite heavily subsidized grain.
—Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countrified
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This combined with the folksiest possible man being selected for the vice-presidential candidate?Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
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At the traditional coaches pregame press conference Sunday, Dykes was in two-minute offense mode, blending insight with a folksy nature.Dallas News, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Good morning: How does a song that’s sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the last 18 weeks (and counting), becoming the down-home Song of the Summer and introducing new audiences to the notoriously homogenous genre of country music, not win Single of the Year at the CMA Awards?Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
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At Henrietta Red in Germantown, the raw bar and restaurant’s atmosphere and chef/co-owner Julia Sullivan’s menu feel simultaneously down-home and elevated.Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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Words like warm and rustic and near Sweetgreen come to mind.Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 24 Dec. 2024
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The ruling in Los Angeles Superior Court resolves a contentious fight over one of SoCal’s most iconic music venues, a rustic roadhouse on a former movie set that has hosted countless acts from Paul McCartney and Robert Plant to Lana Del Rey and Jamie xx.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Countrified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countrified. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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