That down-home accent might be from way down under.
Country music is a quintessentially American art form, born in the heartland and telling stories of small-town life, dirt roads, and pickup trucks. The genre’s biggest stars, with their signature twang and cowboy boots, seem like they are all from places like Nashville, Texas, or Kentucky. The reality is that the genre’s appeal is now global, and some of its most successful artists are not American at all.
Many of the stars you hear on country radio today actually hail from Canada or Australia, a surprising fact that proves the universal appeal of a great country song.