I know there are poseurs in older country music... but who?!?

Hank Williams once said, "You've got to have smelled an awful lot of manure before you can sing like a hillbilly." That opens the floodgates for the phonies, doesn't it? By the same token, you don't have to have a broken heart to sing about it -- you can empathize with someone who has been through such a thing.

There's a reason the older country singers (and by that I mean ***OLD*** -- not people from the 1990s, but those from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s) seemed real: they WERE. There was a stigma associated with being a "hillbilly" (as they were called back then), and the music of the rural south was generally played by people from the rural south: people who grew up during the Depression and knew what being poor was like. People from New Jersey didn't come down to Nashville to sing the way they do today. (I'm currently reading Chet Atkins' 1974 autobiography, and he talked of thinking he had "made it big" because he earned $30 a week. To a boy who'd grown up on a farm with no electricity or indoor plumbing, that probably WAS "making it big.")

The only thing I can think of that comes close to being a "phony" would be Minnie Pearl. Sarah Cannon was a well-educated, sophisticated, happily married woman, hardly the backwoods, man-chasing simpleton of her alter ego. But then again, that WAS a character she was playing.

Glen Campbell is the least sincere Country Singer I can think of!

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"Rhinestone Cowboy" Glen Cambell never rode a horse. And never was a Cowboy.