The country music you’re talking about is nothing like the derivative tripe on the radio (or wherever) today. I don’t compare Hank Williams et al to Morgan Wallen. First of all, music today has a thousand authors. I’m not guessing about this. With rare exception 5 to 10 people are credited as the songwriters of nearly every song out of Nashville today. Inspiration has been replaced with machine logic-like rote button pushing. Even the lyrics grab at the bottom for emotional flotsam. Yes, the Beatles loved country music. From Elvis to Buck Owens and everything in between. They and the others you named simply loved good music. Even Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) named Frank Sinatra as his template for phrasing the hardest of hard rock songs. True.
I don’t sharply disagree with you. But you were responding to a post that was responding to the claim that no-one outside of the US cares about country music.
ONe thing to keep in mind about judging new music: when I was a kid, you weren’t exposed to old music. Whatever was out there was terrible recording quality. And some good old music ended up being dismissed by us kids because it sounded like bad old music.
My son loves ‘70s rock. That’s like me loving ‘30s music when I was a kid. So is he going to listen to some newcomers attempt to recapture that ‘70s feel? No, he’s going to listen to genuine ‘70s rock. And any newcomer has to immediately compete with Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.