• After five decades of recording, the 70-year-old country legend has released his first bluegrass disc, The Bluegrass Sessions.

ON MAKING HIS FIRST BLUEGRASS RECORD I always liked it: Bluegrass was played on country music stations when I was young, but it didn't have a name that I knew of.

ON TODAY'S COUNTRY MUSIC I don't listen to country music on the radio. Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Tubb are still big in my house, and Johnny Cash is still king. That said, I do like Toby Keith. He is probably the last of real country music.

ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY I don't have [an iPod]. I don't have anything of that nature. I don't see the point of the Internet. I know that it has a great deal of [information], but it also has a lot that we don't need that people are getting stuck on.

ON HIS FAVORITE HAGGARD ALBUM I don't have one. I'm really not into my own bathwater. I am not that kind of man.