Jed, I'm a "born and bred" Texan, and sacrilegious or not, here's my opinion on Elvis:

My older brothers took me to see "Love Me Tender" when it first came out, at the old Canadian movie theater. Elvis' character was killed in the movie. At the end, they showed a "ghost" of his face, full-screen. All around us, teenage girls were sobbing. My brothers and I looked at each other and with a single voice shouted: "Shoot him AGAIN!"

Don't care for the Beatles, never did.

DougR, your cowboy list almost matches mine, with the addition of Hank Williams and Hank Thompson. I was raised on country music, the only kind any of the radio stations in our area ever played. Well, there was KOMA in Oklahoma City, but we really didn't pay much attention to it, except when it turned up its power so far you couldn't HEAR anything else...

And although it's really sticking my neck out, I've never been able to listen to Bob Dylan, although I adore some of his songwriting--done by almost anyone else.

Lin