People tend to groan when they hear the name Anne Murray, mostly because she's the only singer from the East Coast that everyone's heard of, and people keep giving her awards all the time, as if there will never be another famous East Coast singer!
I don't think we have an equivalent of Country and Western the way the Americans do it, but we do have famous singers who sang about Canadian stuff during that same era, and likely in that same style. Stompin' Tom Connors comes to mind. (Of course, he's from the East Coast, so you can't really call him Country'n'Western). Wilf Carter? I think I've just exhausted my C'n'W knowledge base.
The problem is that many Americans don't know which of "their" famous people are actually Canadian. And then we get much of our entertainment from the US, so they don't tell us. So then we don't know either. And we find out years later that so-and-so was actually Canadian.
