This, and subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians.
Through this programme, he taught farmers modern agricultural techniques, of course using his inimitable easy style to relate to the simple country folks.
Smoking a pipe was again relegated to portraits of lowly commoners and country folk and the refined sniffing of shredded tobacco followed by sneezing was rare in art.
