This is a question that needs answered
and I have the answers for the question,so here goes:

1.It is singing what you lived and living what you sang
2.It is a front porch on backwoods property
3.It is driving down a four lane playing Hank Williams Sr. or Michael Martin Murphey
4.It is songs with the fiddle and/or the steel guitar in them
5.It is maintaining
the Mountain Music of Appalachia,the Bayou Music of the Cajun
and the Lonestar Music of Texas
6.It is a person with a cowboy hat and cowboy boots riding a horse
7.It is music with roots and soul

That is enough and as they say the rest is history.