Music I Don't "Get"

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I was raised on country music -- think Buck Owens and Hank Williams, not that stuff that sounds like 80's rock that they're calling "country music" today. As a result, there were things that people consider "iconic" today that never appealed to me. I never "got" the Doors, for instance. Even after 40 years of listening to rock and roll they don't do anything for me. The only song of theirs I like is "Touch Me," which sounds more like a pop song that someone like Frank Sinatra might have done. As for the rest of their material, I didn't see anything special about it. "Like a dog without a bone and an actor out on loan"? Nah, that's not "poetry" to me. Speaking of popular people who died about the same time, there's Jimi Hendrix. Having grown up listening to people like Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Don Rich (Buck Owens' guitar player), that should be no shock to anyone. Even when I started listening to rock I gravitated toward more melodic guitarists (I love Mark Knopfler, for instance). Hendrix and his impersonation of a Doors song ("Light My Fire") never did anything for me. I certainly understand that the Doors and Hendrix have significance in the history of rock and roll, but for me, they never did anything.