What is Country Soul? This brief period in country music (1968/1973) history when Cowpokes gave a try to LSD and pot, and so transformed their own music into something less formatted, opened to many others influences such as funk and soul or Psychadelism. Featuring Jesters III, Gary Atkinson, Shirl Milete, Willis Allan Ramsey, Tony Joe White, Michael Murphey, Lee Conway, O.V. Wright, Bobby Darin, Joe South, Mac Davis, and Sherman Hayes.