Reply #3: Pre-70's "country" was actually that - somewhere around Ricky Scaggs - well....

[HopeHoops]

"Well, I loves my country musics.
And I sings it up just swell.
But after Ricky grabbed a mike,
It all just went to hell.

I like my pickup trucks,
and I like the chicks I get.
But this whole country music thing
Has really gone to shit."


For the record, I just made that up in about 30 seconds - like right now, freestyle typing. And I put more thought into it than pretty much anything on a country station these days.


Now, if we're talking Johnny Cash - now THERE is some country music!!!!