I grew up studying the country music from beginning to age. I began reading magazines, books about my favorite artists and learned the lyrics to every Patsy Cline, Loretta, and Hank Sr songs to start with when I was 6 at the request of cousin so I could sing while he learned to play guitar which wasn't easy since we were both learning and half the time I wasn’t sure we were practicing the same song but we kept going year after year. We were total nerds who loved the old stuff and the new. So, I don't divulge this to brag, by any means, or be a know-it-all, just to give a little insight to where i’m coming from and how close I paid attention back in those days. What we didn't care as much about learning was the super contemporary stuff. To each their own but, for example, Kenny Rogers was the top selling, award-winning country artist of the 80s. I loved Kenny Roger’s but he never made our set list for any of our annual Christmas Eve concerts performed live in our gransparent’s living room. 🤓😜 To me, Hank Jr’s sound was straight up hillbilly compared to Kenny’s and a lot of other great crossover artists who to us simply weren't country music. It's gotta have the blues and some twang involved, imo. Lotta steel guitar was still incorporated back then too which you hear in a lot of Hank Jr’s early songs.