now that's some country music
I love it. I'd say that's what I grew up with, but what I grew up with was actually more along the lines of Outlaw Country/Progressive Country-- Willie and Waylon, Kris Kristofferson, Jessi Colter, Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P Nunn, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, etc. That was what my Dad was playing on his much lauded and ground-breaking radio station KOKE-FM in Austin, and so that's what we listened to primarily. And I still love it, to this day.
But it wasn't until I was a little older, maybe 12 or 13, entering junior high in the mid 80s and starting to develop my own musical taste, that I discovered huge stacks of albums and 45s in one of our big storage closets. These were the records that my parents had stashed and rarely listened to anymore, and records that had come from the radio station before my dad had altered its format to "Progressive Country." Among those were Hank Williams, George Jones, Buck Ownes, Ernest Tubb. I started playing those regularly in my room, on my own turntable sound system, and I can recall one day when my dad heard it from outside my room, knocked on the door and came in, and was really surprised at what I was listening to. We sat and listened to a bunch of Buck Owens stuff and I could tell he was really happy I was into it. After that, a lot of those records made it back into his regular rotation at our house.
Sorry for the "cool story bro" it just jogged a memory from back in the day.
