Country and western and Folk music

Country and western noun - A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments.

Folk music and country and western are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Folk music" instead a noun phrase "Country and western".

Folk music noun - The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community.

Country and western and folk music are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Country and western" with "Folk music", this phrases are similar.