If you want to read more about bluegrass/folk and conservatism and what I wrote above, some great reads are:
- Eric Stein's thesis for McGill University titled "Living Right and Being Free: Country Music and Modern American Conservatism"
- Jens Lund and R. Serge Denisoff, "The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions" (in The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 84, No. 334)
- The Sounds of Social Change ed. Denisoff and Peterson, both Jens Lund's "Fundamentalism, Racism, and Political Reaction in Country Music," and R. Serge Denisoff's "Folk music and the American left"