Authenticity seems to be a recurrent concern in popular music – from Richey Edwards “4 Real” self-mutilation to hip hop artists perpetual concern with being “real”. Country is no exception (and maybe the template), as Waylon Jennings’ excoriation of corporate country illustrates:
Slightly surreally it has been covered (fairly directly) by no less than Morrissey.
Séamus Sweeney 