Martin - you are right about country music and electric guitars. You gave some great examples of how country music embraced the tools that were available. Well put!

I do have one "quibble" - your comment about Pete Seeger and his reaction to electric guitars. That incident at Newport has become so clouded and it is impossible to separate truth from the myth.   Pete has said for years that his issue was not the fact that Dylan was using electric guitars (which he had been doing for a year previous to Newport - and organizers like Pete certainly knew he would be using them)but rather the fact that the sound system distorted the instrument to the point where it was overwhelming the vocals. Sorry to drift, but I wanted to give my opinion.