“We had to go to 50 radio stations and explain that it wasn’t ‘d*****.’” Bruce Springsteen hated Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light,” says singer Chris Thompson

Well you're in luck, there's a huge resurgence of carefully crafted country coming out every year. Guys like Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers really pushed the genre forward when it was at it's most stagnant, and now there's a ton of kick ass country musicians again. Folks you can positively say "hank would have done it this ol' way".

Been listening to the abigails last couple days, pretty cool band. Not much of a country listener but theyve got some good songs.

If you look at 1950s and 1960s tv in general his dress in that clip is pretty typical - network censors were pretty brutal about their standards. That’s the reason that style sort of stuck for the late night interview shows - Jack Benny and Jack Parr set the standard and Carson, Leno, etc just continued the trend. Actually if you watch modern clips of the Opry it’s still pretty conservative regarding costumes/dress compared to, say, the Grammy Awards or other musical shows. For example, Vince Gill is pretty relaxed on tour, and used to show up to Time Jumpers shows in whatever he was wearing on the golf course. For the Opry he almost always wears a suit. Partly that’s because of respect for everyone else who has been there before.