[avacado]

I like:

Junior Brown (Austin, Texas)
Lucinda Williams

[WakeUpAndVote]

Johnny Cash

[P8riot]

Bill Monroe

[Flycatcher]

Love your choices of Kieran Kane and Billy Joe Shaver. Recently, I’ve been on a Radney Foster kick. Almost every week now, I throw on “Del Rio, Texas, 1959.”

Good stuff.

[DCBryan1]

personally, I like both kinds.....

country AND western ;)

[tal hajus]

George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, “Gentleman Jim” Reeves.

[gdani]

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys.

Not for everyone, but if you like it & you'll eventually love it.

[lesser_satan]

You Never Even Called Me By My Name By David Allen Coe=greatest country song EVAR.

[deport]

If you have or get a chance to listen to XM radio try channel 13 Willie’s Place. I enjoy their music as it is more of the lesser known country/western artist yet has a lot of the Texas swing sound.

[BlueStateBlues]

How about Eddy Arnold, who died yesterday? A r.i.p. to a great singer who told stories in his songs. I’ll check out You Tube to see what they have on him.

[Notary Sojac]

Bob Wills

Spade Cooley

Asleep at the Wheel

Hot Club of Cowtown

Johnny Gimble

Merle Haggard

you can probably tell where I'm coming from here.....

[Rocko]

Hank Williams, Sr.

[ßuddaßudd]

Hank, Johnny, Waylon, David, etc
Old school country music is best imho

[duckman]

Lefty Frizelle.

[Califelephant]

Hank Williams.

[Sybeck1]

George Strait.

[NCC-1701]

This gal

[gdani]

Don't be afraid to try some Jerry Reed.

Some of us his stuff is a little too novelty-ish for me but there's some great stuff among his work. And he's a heck of a guitar-picker, too,

[Califelephant]

The father of country music, “The Singing Brakeman”, Jimmie Rodgers. (This is the Jimmie Rodgers of the 20’s and 30’s, not the “Honeycomb” Jimmie Rodgers of the 50’s.)

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers_(country_singer)

[GSWarrior]

Frog Holler is another band making great country/bluegrass music.