The radio-friendly crap you hear today SUCKS. This is what country music sounded like when it was still good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqxq6xqoXI If you don't know who Gram Parsons is, you should.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZyTbFp-2aM&feature=PlayList&p=C5A89B8361FF0B18&index=28 Good country.
well, once upon a time. there was a music that wasn't about drunks in some bar in a city, acting like retardad beligerant assholes, because they thought that was how to pretend they weren't living in a city.
Parsons became enamored of Joshua Tree National Monument in southeastern California. Alone or with friends, he would disappear in the desert for days searching for UFOs while under the influence of psilocybin or LSD