Looking for gritty, authentic, rough around the edges masculine country

I’m not a big country fan. When I was a kind I admired Hank Williams Sr for having an authentic voice who sang about sorrow openly (seriously), and Johnny Cash for his booming voice. I liked Willie Nelson’s saddest most heartfelt songs and Garth Brooks song “The Dance.” I also enjoyed the fun storytelling of Kenny Rogers the Gambler and the magic of him and Dolly singing Islands in the Stream together. I like the authenticity and pain of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy.”

I find most modern country to be too manufactured and poppy and getting dangerously close to boy band and mainstream pop sung with a country twang in the voice and some carefully selected red state lyrics but without the same heart, pain and authenticity that I think country did better than almost any musical genre before it.

As I grew older I started to like some alternative country bands like Uncle Tupelo and Wilco and some others who were a bit folkier like First Aid Kit. I enjoy the Waxahatchee song “Right Back to It” because it feels heartfelt and real to me.

I’m looking for something musically like the latter but sung by a masculine authentic voice similar to country artists of the past. Something that sounds authentic and real and not focused on being super popular and dancey. Someone whose words and voice can make you contemplate life and mistakes and regrets or the beautiy of life and shed a tear or two around a campfire.