I went to sleep on the High Plains 78 years ago listening to great Western music. Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Leon McAuliffe, Pee Wee King and many others.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s I learned to dislike “Hillbilly” music. A friend loaned me some 33 1/3 records and one was Bob Wills! I was in hog heaven! I now have lots of vinyl and CDs of Bob Wills and the others. I do not consider him “hillbilly” as he was from the High Plains.
That was Western. As opposed to Country.