i just bought Sheb Wooley CD

"Rawhide / How the west was won"

I've enjoyed cowboy music ever since i was a toddler
and was given Roy Rogers & Dale Evans

"A cowboy needs a horse" red plastic mini 78rpm for xmas..


these days i like US bands like Cowboy Nation

and the Bloodshot Records bunch of punk alt.country/cowboy recording artists..
[UK's Jon Langford from legendary Leeds punk agitgit-pop band The Mekons
heavily involved with bloodshot recordings]



as well as the old time country influenced Gothic Americana bands like Handsome family/ Blanche /
Slim Cessna / Denver Gentlemen / 16 Horsepower etc..


..from my middle aged Brit punk / indie / folk-rock perspective..
this is my favourite kind of music being made at the moment..


..trad [pre 80's] country music is probably something people dont realise they understand and enjoy
until they've grown up and experienced the best and worst
that life can deal out..

so much to discover and so little time left..

{now got a 7 cd Yazoo lable Kentucky mountain music boxset to find time to listen to]

I stopped pretending to hate "Country and Western"
when i was in my 30's and mature enough
to openly admit in public that i could no longer make any meaninful qualitative / prejudiced distinction
between the best of classic rock'n'roll, rockabilly, and country..

Patsy Cline rocks !!!

most likely very obvious to americans who lived and breathed this music..
but a problematic critical minefield for us Brits
who grew up in the 70s and 80s with extremely separatist tribal music youth sub-cultures..
and were brainwashed with a very one dimensional perspective
of country and western