'Country' used to be folk music, jazzed up a little at times, rather 'pure' at other times. Marketed commercially, certainly, but no less folk for that - even Nimrod Workman is marketed commercially, that's the way things are done in a capitalist society (with socialism for the rich to keep them happy).

'Country' nowadays is synonomous with the worst sort of treacly pap, nary a trace of the old music.

So if Keith Urban is country, what is Fiddlin' John Carson?