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I like some straight up stuff to be sure. "Rise Above" will always be a classic rock song for me, and in the right mood I could listen to any Minor Threat tune and totally love it.
However, I tend to like artists who break out of whatever genre most. The Sun City Girls going in front of a hardcore audience and not even bringing instruments along for the set - that's fucking genius (of course because they had the raw talent as well as balls to pull it off.)
That said, the odd thing about country, is that it tends to be the opposite of that - there really is some sort of "purity" that makes the best stuff be the most country. As in as far from the glittery pop shit on the cable networks as possible. The reason we look to Hank Williams as the best is not that he was the first, he really wasn't, just that he was the most pure. I know there's something to that in punk and garage rock too, and I can totally get into Dead Moon or the like on a similar level. Still my favorite punk or hardcore stuff tends to be pretty damn experimental - as in pushing outside the boundaries of what defines it in the genre to begin with. Experimental country isn't even a bad idea - it's not an idea at all.
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