when country was country & western was western ?????!

I get more sentimental about when country was hillbilly and western was called cowboy.

They changed it all just after we got our first radio big enough for two people to listen at the same time.

I'm not sure when the next transmogrification happened 'cause that was mostly done after that new-fangled crap called tellagabision came along and we couldn't afford one of them fancy things for about 20 years and it all happened when we wasn't lookin'. When we finally got one of 'em ('bout '56) the only channel we could get (if somebody held onto the antenna just right) never played nothin' but Lawrence (bubbles) Welk so we still didn't find out a lot about what "new music" was around.

But a local DJ by name of Johnny Western did play "Old Shep" day before yesterday on our local AM old-time country station. (Hadn't heard that one since about '51, and now I remember why; but he was memberalizin' the passing of the writer or somethin' like that. Apparently a personal friend of his.)

John