rec.music.country.western
Country and western music, all eras.
From Jimmie Rodgers to the current Nashville chart, with the classic-vs-contemporary argument as its perpetual engine — discographies, concert reports and songwriting-credit corrections supplied by obsessives.
University library guides cited this group as a reference point for the genre’s online discussion — the link that brings many readers here.
Reading rec.music.country.western today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — rec.music.country.western (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.