I was raised on Bob Wills, Grand Ole Opry music, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, and went to sleep as a child listing to it on the radio. Then came years with no C&W music. We got a TV.
In 1968, a friend loaned me some country music and I didn’t care for it, until I hit the Bob Wills record! WOW! It hit! Still a fan of Bob Wills and Spade Cooley and the 1930s and ‘40s music! I still remember seeing the advertisements in THE TULSA WORLD for Bob Wills at Cain’s Ball Room!
Woody Guthrie...He also loaned me his record. I did not care for it. He would sing and play, then when he stopped singing he also stopped playing and the music would just die. No intro, no exit.
Jimmie Rodgers: He loaned me that record. Did not care for the yodeling. Otherwise it was OK.
Got lots of CDs from Bob Wills, Spade Cooley and others from the 1930s-1950s.
Skynyrd did a rendition of Jimmie Rodgers T for Texas with Steve Gaines playing slide worthy of Duane Allman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJADYwmidI
Wills was amazing with his “Ahh Hahh. Ahh fiddles” band leader accompaniment. The music was mighty great back then. Cheatin’ songs. Drinkin’ songs. Barroom jukebox songs. Poverty songs. The down side of life with the white underclass. And church on Sunday with your hangover.