Posted on 09/15/2019 1:40:34 PM PDT by cowpoke
He forgot to play the music backwards so you could get your house back, your car back, your wife back, and get sober
Even though KB is definitely a liberal, I do like his documentaries as they are very well done. The Civil War documentary is a particular favorite of mine.
A lot of people deride the "modern sound" of country music but I generally like it just fine. Still a lot of great country songs being written and performed.
Probably the best country artist of the 2010s decade so far is Luke Combs. To me, Combs evokes the "blue collar" spirit of country music.
Thanks.
And, yes, this write up didn’t make any sense. I noticed that before you pointed out it’s source.
Liberals are idiots who understand nothing.
I wouldn’t have known it’s on today.
I figure the first one may be worth watching because it will be about early practitioners.
How much time will Ken Burns devote to Ray Charles and Charlie Pride?
There are no great country artists anymore, but there are some decent country/pop artists who occasionally turn out an excellent song.
I made it partway through his baseball series until he taught us baseball was a metaphor for everything wrong in racist America.
Jazz...more of the same.
I've surrendered on Ken Burns. I don't see how you can make Country and Western music anti-American. I s'pect he'll find a way.
Hecks bells,Tom Hanks is a frightful loony liberal. Nevertheless, he made The Pacific War and From The Earth to the Moon eminently watchable.
I don't know this first hand. It may be Hanks is a rare liberal who doesn't hate the United States. I doubt Burns or anyone speaking for him could ever make that claim.
Great line in a Toby Keith song: A little sissy in a cowboy hat aint country. LOL.
The racists have rap and hip-hop. So what? My Mom used to say that’s why they have vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream. To each his own. So just shut up, idiot leftie morons.
Today's "pop music" is mostly either angry rap or overly-produced and synthesized dance music with soulless lyrics and drum machines. I can't stand it.
Country music songs usually tell a story. Some of them insipid to be sure but a story nonetheless.
Everything in the past is going to have the racist template placed over it as the left marches on with its revisionism.
Control the historical narrative and you control the future one.
This is how the left is tearing down institutions one by one.
Liberal just don’t get “poor” dosen’t have a color
It is a characteristic of communists, greedy and patronizingly racist themselves, to cover themselves by claiming every criticism of communism is based on racism and greed.
Well, if he doesn’t do a good job of showing the importance of Springfield MO and Red Foley’s “Ozark Jubilee” - the first national TV program to feature country music - it’s not worth a bucket of spit.
In the early days of television, thanks to that program Springfield MO was #2 behind New York City - ahead of Chicago and LA - for national television program origination. 25 million viewers per week in black and white, where most people were lucky to get 2 or 3 channels. The brainchild of Ralph Foster who owned KWTO radio “Keep Watchin The Ozarks”, where Chet Atkins and the Carter Family were once staff musicians. This is what opened the door for Branson.
<< [The story] ends somewhere in the 90s, right about the time Johnny Cash hooked up with producer Rick Rubin to record three stark albums that showcase a man staring eternity in the eye and never blinking. Its a dark but appropriate moment to close with. Or maybe they just couldnt figure out a graceful way to say that contemporary country is just not very interesting. >>
Yep. Most contemporary country isnt just non-interesting, its an abomination. Especially bro country mindless, insipid, frat-party pap.
“I haven’t been able to get through a Ken Burns offering since The Civil War.”
Baseball did it for me. America’s is a irredeemably racist country BS laced throughout.
Tom Petty called it, “Bad Rock with a fiddle”
Garth Brooks killed country music.
“black folks and mexicans are allowed to have a cultural heritage. But not white folks”
This is the process of dehumanization, a necessary step before extermination.
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