Display MoreJim,
I hope Chistopher continues with his guitar,
he'll find it all so very fulfilling when he's older,
and will gain great satisfaction from it all!!
I'm glad I continued,as it's given me a fantastic life!
I love the Roy Rogers, Sons of The Pioneers,
Gene Autry songs, many of which I still incude, as repertoire!
One day Jim, he'll suprise you, and start singing them!!
Thanks, Keith, for those encouraging words!
Sadly, don't know if one could make much of a living singing old cowboy songs nowadays, but who knows, there may come a revival. For me it would be just the pleasure knowing them.
Chester 
People like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers . . .
I'd give a thousand dollars or more if I could play the guitar and had all the songs memorized that these gentlemen knew how to sing. Two of our children have learned to play the guitar, but they are into other styles of music besides C&W. I would love to see my 10 year old son learn the guitar also, and sing some of those old Roy Rogers songs . . . . Hey, I can dream, can't I??
Chester
I can add that I do not like the garbage that seems to have made brittany spears a rich girl, and all the ones like her.
Sometimes I wonder if Satan himself isn't working within the music community to suck the unwary into his lair
Chester
One of the funniest things I ever saw was during my visits to Japan and China while in the Navy during the Fifties. Practically every port we visited had a nightclub with Japanese or Chinese guys dressed up in Western garb and playing country and western music. I must admit though that many of them were pretty talented.
When I was in the Navy, I saw Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys at the EM (Enlisted Men's) Club in Okinawa while our ship was visiting there. Then we steamed up to Yokuska just in time to catch him at the EM Club there. Then we went back down to Sasebo, our home port, and who should we see at the EM Club but Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys. How's that for Country & Western in the Orient?! We just about had all his songs memorized by the third concert! 
Several of his ditties included The Squaws Along the Yukon are Good Enough for Me; Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette; The Footprints of a Fool; and Humpty Dumpty Heart, just to name a few.
So, to answer the question, yes, I do like country and western, the older style like Todd mentioned.
Chester
