Does anyone like country

I love Country music, however NOT the pop music they call Country on the mainsteam radio. Americana, Alt Country and Bluegrass are great.

Lucinda Williams
Townes Van Zandt
Gram Parsons
Todd Snider
Billy Joe Shaver
Allison Krauss
Ricky Scaggs
Rodney Crowell
The Flatlanders
Flying Burrito Brothers
Willie and Waylon of course
Steve Earle
Jim Lauderdale

A few that come to mind right of hand.

It is good to hear other people's views on country music. It seems as if many of you have respect for country music of past decades and generations.

Buffalo Springfield and Poco were my first tastes of country.

Since then I've enjoyed many of the artists mentioned here.

Patsy Cline and Hank Williams both produced an incredible amount of great work in their short careers. She died at 31, he at 30.

to my ears, 98% of what's marketed as country, including most of the mainstream cowboy hat stuff, ranges from inconsequential to really terrible (although in fairness, you could say the same thing about rock). the 2% of country that's good, however, is very good--soulful, poignant, emotionally direct. i most of muzikat's picks; i'd also throw in roseanne cash, hank williams, foster and lloyd, townes van zandt, old 97s, gillian welch and the jayhawks (genre lines get kinda blurry)

I used to say with a snobbish attitude, I listen to all kinds of music, except country music. I don't say that anymore. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, old Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and George Jones are as good as any pop/rock singers. The righful heirs to this tradition are Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynn, Wilco, and other artists mentioned above, not the marketing-driven poseurs that pass for country musicians these days. What people call "alt-country" (I hate that term) is closer to real country music IME.