Y'know, I've never thought of Johnny Cash as "country", despite how he's classified in music stores ... he just had too broad a range of styles to be so neatly pigeonholed.

And very true about the best in any genre not reaching most ears ... the really good stuff has to be dug for. :-)

P.S. I think you'd get a kick out of the CKUA program Dead Ends and Detours ... the band itself was genrically varied, but the best part is hearing the surprising range of artists in every genre who have covered their songs in many different styles.