Reply #24: Exactly...

[JuniperLea]

You can't even smell the corral cookies, but you can hear the twang.

Buck Owens, Faron Young, Flats and Scruggs... Johnny and June Cash... hell, even Conway Twitty. Loretta Lynn. THAT's country music. That's the stuff that played constantly in my grandmother's kitchen in the 60s and 70s, and on TV with Hee Haw and The Grand Ol' Opry.

What we have passing for country now is a disgrace to the foundation the aforementioned artists built, and it's a damn shame.

Edited to say, Hank Williams was a master... his kid is a cheeky swine. His grandson, Hank III, is a miracle! Thank God the genes got through. He's more like his grandad than his dad is!