I was just remarking a couple weeks ago how beautiful and meaningful country from this time was, before the genre completed it's split from rock.

Another song in a similar vein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHpkYI5_FY

Wasn't one I'd heard too often, but this version of it is growing on me the more I listen to it. The barer vocals, for me, really evoke the poor, desperate background of the narrator and titular character.