CND - yes !!! thank you for those absolutely spot on audio links...

apologise for not noticing them earlier when you posted [ up to my neck in problems with computers and my dear old mum...]

Your links solve everything.

Back 10 - 15 years ago I got deeply into American Alt Country bands like 16 Horsepower & Blanche..

...so 'rudimentary' minimalist plaintive banjo is well in accord with my tastes..

Plus Western movie soundtrack music has always been a solid foundation for me since very early childhood,
dressing up in a cowboy outfit roaming the wild streets and playgrounds of untamed south west England...
[my mum still has the photos...]

Here's a quick theory to chuck at armchair musicologists...

55 years ago a hot innovative young rock & roll guitar player unwittingly invented folk rock and alt country...!!!???😜