Definitions

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  • noun a musical subgenre that combines punk rock with country music, folk music, and blues

Etymologies

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cow +‎ punk

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Examples

  • Now pushing 50 years old, cowpunk master Ness carries the flag for unapologetic loud rock that wears it heart on its tattooed sleeve.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011

  • Now pushing 50 years old, cowpunk master Ness carries the flag for unapologetic loud rock that wears it heart on its tattooed sleeve.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011

  • It was here that he joined the cowpunk band Green on Red in 1985, and he's been here ever since.

    San Francisco, City of His Dreams Jim Fusilli 2012

  • A good local country-ish band (they call it “cowpunk”) is playing at the brewery a mile from our apartment; will try to stay awake till midnight.

    What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve? | clusterflock 2008

  • Not just cyberpunk, but splatterpunk and the aborted calf that was cowpunk had already traipsed by by the time someone decided that stuff like Verne-ish, dime-novel-steam-robot, THE WILD, WILD WEST fiction could be reasonably be called steampunk.

    Which is the better term: Steampunk or "Historical SF"? Scott Parker 2009

  • Not long after I got fired, Mick landed a gig with a popular local cowpunk band called Lone Justice.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • Not long after I got fired, Mick landed a gig with a popular local cowpunk band called Lone Justice.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • Not long after I got fired, Mick landed a gig with a popular local cowpunk band called Lone Justice.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • A good local country-ish band they call it “cowpunk” is playing at the brewery a mile from our apartment; will try to stay awake till midnight.

    What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve? | clusterflock 2008

  • Over three decades he formed and left two seminal cowpunk bands -- Rank and File and The True Believers -- before settling down as an elder statesman of the alt-country community.

    Wolfson's List 2007

  • Country influences combined with Punk rock and alternative rock to forge the "cowpunk" scene in Southern California during the 1980s, which included bands such as The Long Ryders, Lone Justice and The Beat Farmers, as well as the established punk group X, whose music had begun to include country and rockabilly influences.

    Country music - Wikipedia Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2023

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