Wynn Stewart - It’s Such a Pretty World Today . Songwriters: Billie Ruth Noe / Dale E Noe . Wynn Stewart was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound. Although not a huge chart success, he was an inspiration to such artists as Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and Nick Lowe. . Stewart was born in Morrisville, Missouri, United States,in 1934, during the Depression. He spent most of his childhood moving around the country with his sharecropping family. After World War II, Stewart spent a year worki