40s-50s country

If I were to classify the music I grew up on, it would break down thusly:

The folkies/pop folk (early Dylan, Joan Baez, Seeger, Rooftop Singers, Kingston Trio, basically anything parodied in A Might Wind)
Soft rock/r&b (Aaron Neville, later Rod Stewart, Wilson Philips, Amy Grant)
"Oldies" radio
ABBA
40s/50s country

Frankly, that country music is so ingrained in me I can't help but smile when I hear Vaughn Monroe's "Riders in the Sky" or George Jones "White Lightning" or Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" or Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" and I've been getting more into it lately. My new favorite is Frankie Laine (who sang the theme song to a lot of westerns, including Blazing Saddles).



Anyone else into this kind of stuff?

I remember the sounds of "El Paso" being belted out by my aunts' old record player when I was a kid.



And Bill Monroe is a god.

Sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...

Yeah I work for my grandpa who listens to alot of that stuff. I like listening to the words because some of them are really good stories. Like Tom T Hall