Religion represents a fundamental human appetite. There is somehow an invisible guitar behind the prose and poetry. Oh, for every kid, a cowboy is important. I've always loved country music. I lived in Nashville for a couple of years.
Country singers tend to be a little older.
The audience tends to be a lot more loyal. So the singers and the writers can reveal themselves over a long period of time. When you have pop groups coming and going with tremendous rapidity, you can't get the feel of the artist. I don't know whether I'd dare to give advice to a poet. But I do think that if somebody is interested in training for songwriter or poet or writer, a study of folk music, of which country and western is just an aspect, is not a bad idea.