Are there different types of Country Music?

There most certainly are! I will start at the beginning, when Country Music wasn't even Country Music. In the 1920s it was simply popular music, as performed by The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, 'Fiddlin' John Carson, Ernest V. Stoneman, Vernon Dalhart, and a host of other 'pioneers'. The music later assumed the tag "Hillbilly", which it maintained until the late 1940s, when the term "Country" was first used.

During those early days a parallel brand of music was being put out by artists like Gene Autry, The Sons Of The Pioneers, Patsy Montana and Roy Rogers. This was "Western" music. We also had the beginnings of Western Swing at this time, with Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and Moon Mullican. The two genres were lumped together, and called "Country and Western Music" in the 1950s.

The Carter Family performed a lot of traditional folk songs, so, "Hillbilly Folk". Jimmie Rodgers did Blues, Folk, Gospel and Cowboy music. Another innovation in the 1940s was "Hillbilly Boogie" (The Delmore Brothers). Others in the Boogie groove were Tennessee Ernie Ford, Arthur Smith and Merrill Moore. So before we even had "Country & Western" we had Hillbilly Folk, Swing, Gospel, Boogie, Blues and Western.

Once the genre had settled itself as C & W Music, it started to subdivide again. Along came Rockabilly, Old Timey, Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, then The Nashville Sound, Countrypolitan, The Bakersfield Sound, The Lubbock Sound, Country Rock, etc. Even sub-genres had sub-genres! For instance, Newgrass, Folk Rock, Swamp Rock, Truck Driving Country(!) and Country Soul.

The 1970s brought us Outlaw Country and Country Pop or Crossover (which worked both ways). The 80s spawned Neo Country, and Neo-Traditional. Today's Country spans such a huge range of sub-genres that almost anything can be called Country Music, and is! Some examples of odd current styles are: Cowpunk, Cowjazz, Country Rap, Bush Band (Australia), Psychobilly, Hellbilly (or Gothabilly), and Red Dirt (sometimes confused with Texas Country).

Some other sub-genres which have emerged over the last 40 years are Tex-Mex, Tejano, Zydeco, Alternative Country, and some sub-genres of Americana. What a mess!!

There are many types of country music! There's bluegrass, Americana, outlaw country, Christian country, country pop, country rock, classic country, 90s country (like George strait) and many more! I love country but I can only stand so much bluegrass!

YES!! I love country music <3 (but pop is still better)

why yes there are tons.there are also genres that have a country influence. western swing, bluegrass, bakersfield sound, Texas country, red dirt, alt country, pop country, cow punk, rockabilly, north mississippi hill country blues, Americana, honky tonk., country rock, southern rock, singing cowboys etc

I prefer red dirt and americana

Doublessly. But Rustic Howl is the most common.