The Beatles did "Act Naturally". Go dig out the Buck Owens original, and anything else from back then; grab a CD by his "son" Dwight Yoakam. Or some Gram Parsons (Flying Burrito Brothers; The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo). You can't go wrong with Hank Williams. Great stuff. Country was traditionally the most multicultural of North American musix, where even a black Midwestern kid or a Cree kid from Quebec would entertain dreams of being on the Opry. Because it was good.