LMFAO!!!

I try to stay away from country too. I hate the twanginess and enormous cheese-factor of that style of music. Although when a woman has her mind set on something, there's generally no stopping it :). I do like older country sometimes, like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, etc... They're great to listen to if you're drinking brown liquor and feeling down. This brings me to a question though. Musically, what makes country country and rock rock? Choice of scales, phrasing? I'm talking cliche' sounds here on a general scale.