Guest, Dale:

Somewhat similiar situation for me. It seemed no one, especially high schoolers in the Chicago suburbs was listening to country music but me in the mid 60's. We had two power house AM stations playing Top 40 and even regional bands such as The Buckinghams and The Cryin' Shames were very popular. I was buying albums by people like George Hamilton IV, Bobby Bare, and Charlie Pride along with Flatt & Scruggs. I bought new Waylon Jennings first album release on RCA in 1966 called Folk-Country and played it for some other people into music. They thought I was way weird for liking that "hillbilly crap." I was also into Glen Campbell and thought Gentle On my Mind was an extremely poetic piece of country music. His records on Capitol were so well produced.