Back in the middle 1960s, besides being known as a guitar genius, Chet Atkins, then top A&R man and producer in Nashville had a marketing vision that reached out to many of the then just about played out folk-scare fans.

A group of albums from RCA artists such as Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, and George Hamilton IV carried a "folk-country" logo on them, and along with songs by contemporary Nashville writers of the time, also featured folk-flavored material by writers such as Gordon Lightfoot and Ian Tyson.

This is how I and I am sure many others started to be exposed to country music, as the combination of folk and country quickly took me from the folk world to the world of country music. Flatt & Scruggs had something to do with the combined genre, also.