[HugoM]

ok apart from the already mentioned waylon, willie, johnny c, george jones and merle haggard you gotta check out some of the more left field artistes such as terry allen, townes van zandt, guy clark, gram parsons (solo, with the byrds and the flying burrito brothers, he basically invented alt.country or whatever you want to call it and i can't believe his name has not been mentioned yet) and of course hank williams (how anybody could not like his stuff i do not understand)