Here, my neighbor, Leon, is singing country music for a group of people here at the apartment building where we live. Country music is: a style and genre of largely string-accompanied American popular music having roots in the folk music of the Southeast and cowboy music of the West, usually vocalized, generally simple in form and harmony, and typified by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica.- dictionary.com.