re: #2 Charles

But none of those bands were “country western.” CW is a very specific type of cheap sentimental music, by the likes of Merle Haggard, Lee Greenwood, etc., often with a right wing slant. The kind of music they featured on “Hee Haw.”

That’s why I say Americana is not the same as “country western.”

yeah, i find myself listening to the Bakersfield Beat on Sirius, and it’s surprising the full range of what country really was back in the 60’s, for instance. I’d listen to it more but for some reason they decided every goddamned third song needs to be Dwight Yoakum. He’s fine, but I don’t need him every third song.