For years I have been telling anyone who would listen that  real Country music has more in common with Punk and Rock than anything you hear on the radio, on any station, these days.   I usually use Gram Parsons relationship to the Stones, and the mountainous amount of drugs done by the Country Outlaws as my initial evidence, but the argument should be made by playing songs. Unfortunately, it's hard to get someone to really listen to an old Waylon Jennings song. 

Someone else once pointed out that Guy Clark,  who is folk-county through and through, has the smoothest spoken-word delivery since Tribe Called Quest (Either I am misquoting, or they got the chronology wrong).   Since then I have played around in my head with turning his songs into rap songs.   My artistic ability fails me, but thankfully Townes Van Zandt offers us a few talking blues songs, which shed some light on the short distance between folk and and rap.  

But now the truth has been laid bare.  Lauren sent me this video. The discussion is closed.