I can't tell if you're serious or mocking, but Jones and haggard have something more interesting than a voice..a "sound." Mick Jagger has a sound...Robert Goulet has a voice. Dig?

I AM serious.
Go listen to George Jones right now
I'll wait.

Done yet?
You gotta admit, the guy's really got some phrasing and stuff.
Seriously, I like real singers and I definitely think G.J. is a real, bona-fide, Jen-Yoo-Wine Sanger!

I mean, If I said Eddie Arnold, I'd understand but George Jones is serious stuff!

I'm done brooding so here's another post.
(digger plays twangy guitar)

Sorry, old chum..I misjudged ye. Yeah, the Possum has chops.

My parents listened to a great deal of country music as I was growing up and I kind of shrugged it off until I got older. By that time (in my 30s) I started getting into it and now it's a solid part of my musical catalog

well all ive heard on the radio was horrible and it all sounded the same so ill take tanjello's reccomendations a try. To be honest though the Cash man is the only country i think ill really ever listen to, & enjoy.

I listen to it occasionally on the local GI station. They have some nice tunes every now and then. Only I don't like the ballads.

And of course I like all music involved with Smokie & The Bandit and The Dukes Of Hazard!

yeah, country--like blues, gospel, and r&b--is an incredibly rich, varied part of american history. but, just like blues, gospel, and r&b, it's been overtaken by the commercialism of the mainstream media. there's a lot of great stuff to explore, both past and present. i can't imagine my musical collection without any country.

and to answer the Londoner who started this thread, I've always been a citydweller.

and, by the way, I've met a lot of Africans who love Dolly Parton.