Posted on 09/22/2019 12:30:54 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
If you like watching about American history/roots, you will enjoy this. Not a waste.
Thank you, yes...and I posted one of my own reservations (about how Burns would characterize Elvis contributions to C&W music in the series) on your thread. I totally respect FReepers objections on Ken Burns documentaries which are typically full of racial & hard left crap.
On THIS thread I just wanted to share how these American songs 60 years later remain amazing. American legends wrote all these hall of fame songs and literally had to sell them out of the trunks of their cars just to get heard. Patsy Clines story really touched me, though Ive played Crazy on the digital jukebox many times, but the songs history and her death at just 30 was and is compelling.
The series is excellent. I haven’t missed a minute of it.
I enjoy CM more and more, over time.
This documentary is educational and enjoyable.
“The problem is that Ken Burns has a history of putting out a masterful product then ruining it with political commentary.”
Really hasn’t been much of that.
I thought there’d be more.
Boring as hell as told by the strange Mr. Burns.
Did you know that black people invented Country Music?
Was she not awesome? I never really ‘heard’ Brenda Lee..but my mom loved her. I was stunned when I watched that segment...man...she could really belt them out and so young..unbelievable.
A powerhouse of a voice inside a 4 foot nine inch pixie frame.
Well thanks to Al Sharpton I already knew that “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires.” so it only makes sense that they would invent country music also.
Its definitely worth watching!
Were enjoying it.
I thought he had a few weasel words at the beginning.....am not a fan of Ken Burns
....but so far this is beautifully rendered
Appalachia generally has talented, family friendly folks plying their music...
....but realize the Hippy Dippys came along and tried to ruin a good thing
They have infiltrated these mountains like bedbugs....
....but the ole time music remains eternal
I always dismissed country music as corny and just commercial pap for less educated rubes. In watching the series I have completely reversed my opinion. What I’ve learned is that country in its foundations is a very organic folk art form that simply but authentically tells stories about the suffering and transcendence of rural American lives. The stories of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Willy Nelson, the Carter family, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, and Minnie Pearl are fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time. Episode four captured that moment in time when Elvis Presley appeared for his one and only time at the Grand Old Opry’ to perform his new rockabilly music and was ultimately shunned by the country audience as too overtly sexual. This was not a problem for the young girls at the time and created the dividing line that eventually led to commercial rock and roll.
The great songs of Patsy Cline that defined the new “Memphis sound” made the tragedy of her young death at 30 in the private plane crash even more poignant and was beautifully conveyed in still pictures as only Ken Burns can do.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the episodes but other than early Eagles and Linda Ronstadt records I’m probably not ever going to be a fan of the modern country genre.
That’s one of the major reasons I’ve enjoyed this. There’s been no blatant ‘agenda’. I’ve heard Burns has done some outstanding work but this is the first time I’ve watched anything by him. So he’s an activist? leftist?
That’s one of the major reasons I’ve enjoyed this. There’s been no blatant ‘agenda’. I’ve heard Burns has done some outstanding work but this is the first time I’ve watched anything by him. So he’s an activist? leftist?
Damn...double posting I don’t get it!
“The problem is that Ken Burns has a history of putting out a masterful product then ruining it with political commentary.”
narrated by peter coyote with zero political commentary and only one or two very minor PC correctness sops ...
There is another thread on this series that has a lot more commentary on Burns’ take on different subjects
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3778952/posts?q=1&;page=21
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