I’ll add the old joke: I like both kinds of music, Country and Western!
C&W was on the car radio when I was a wee lad, so the first real songs I learned to sing along with (beyond Mary had a little lamb, row row row your boat, etc) were A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash, written by Shel Silverstein I think) and Roger Miller’s King of the Road. Sons of the Pioneers also featured in my childhood.
I still listen to a lot of old Country and some western music. I have Sirius so catch it in the car but try to get Ranger Doug (saw him with the Time Jumpers in Nashville a few years back) for the really old, mostly western stuff.
I don’t think I own a single C&W album. I purchased mostly jazz and some classical in my acquiring days; I’ve been inheriting (absconding) with my parents’ LPs and they too are older (pre-1960s) jazz and classical. My folks received a good music education and an appreciation for classical music, which my mom continues to enjoy and attend regularly. My dad strayed into C&W and jazz (he was naughty), so as a teen I can remember in his car the 8-tracks of Jerry Reed and Mac Davis (O Lord, Its Hard to be Humble).
I’ll end with this favorite performed by David Allan Coe (who is mentioned in Cash’s Backstage at a Willie Nelson Concert). The last verse starting around 3:40, is a good laugh by a C&W artist at C&W’s stereotype: