You are just to citified then. 
Posted on 09/15/2019 1:40:34 PM PDT by cowpoke
You are just to citified then.
My God you had a porcelain chamberpot? You were one of the rich ones huh?
If it is just more lies about history, no. There is some pretty good Country Music history on YouTube if you want an honest assessment.
Agreed, and lousy virtue signaling lefty entertainers at that.
I guess it’s a matter of critical thinking. You CAN watch stuff from any source and NOT be sucked in to deceit.
The first reaction of people on FR is to find what’s wrong instead of what’s interesting or right.
We tend to accept anything that confirms our pre-conceived opinion. Just the nature of reality. Take a lot of real proof to change my opinion and that is as it should be.
Deford Bailey was decades before either one of them.
Garth Brooks killed it with his Rock-a-Billy. But that wasn't the first time "Country" music was killed off and reborn as something completely different. And it won't be the last.
I look forward to watching the series. I’m sure there are good parts and not so good parts. Any documentary on country music is going to have to distill 100 years into 10 hours, not easy.
I visited Nashville for the first time recently and took in all the tourist places and it definitely made me more interested in the history and the players.
This will add to my knowledge - Country Music is definitely a great part of our music history and culture.
And, I’m grateful Taylor Swift ditched “country” because she was authentic and as such not welcome.
oops, taylor swift = NOT authentic
I maintain that when Disco, New Wave, and Punk killed off Country-Rock (e.g., The Eagles) and Folk-Rock (e.g., Nicolette Larson), Country inevitably became more pop and filled the enormous void. I consider Garth Brooks the consequence rather than the catalyst.
The pop, slick, side of Country has indeed been around for a long time; it just was not as mainstream and profitable. The Anita Kerr Singers, working with various studio musicians such as Floyd Cramer (piano), created the Nashville Sound, which provided the backing vocals to a broad spectrum of musical hits in Country and Pop.
Kerr, born in Memphis, Tennessee, was a marvelous soprano, and a very gifted arranger. Her influence across many genres of popular music is enormously undervalued. Their presence in music from back then is almost ubiquitous.
In one of life’s vagaries, she and her singers, and Cramer, recorded a song as a lark at the end of a day’s session for Buddy Killen (who worked with many artists in Nashville, including Elvis Presley). He had written a song, and they quickly laid it down for fun as a favor.
It ended up a Top-Ten hit in January 1960, by a group called The Little Dippers. The label wanted a tour. The problem was there was no such band: They were all studio musicians. So they created a substitute quartet to do the actual touring.
Finishing part 4 now. Outstanding. PBS.org online.
I did like her contribution to The Hunger Games soundtrack, in collaboration with The Civil Wars, produced by T-Bone Burnett.
Iff you can watch the Carter story and the death of Jimmy Rogers and call it boring and virtue signaling you have no heart or soul. This is a fine tribute to country music and a historical record for the ages.
Have another beer and turn on your playstation.
Watched the first episode last night. Well aware of Burns biases, but can still learn things I didn’t know. Enjoyed it so far.
I look at Burns work this way. He hands me a bag of diamonds with some lumps of coals. The lumps are not always obvious unless you’re a researcher, but the diamonds are brilliant.
His use of testimony or letters in the civil war bring it to a personal level.
Collectively his works are adding to the historical record of the history of the US and it’s culture.
We have a lot of comment here about race and baseball, but his baseball series is the definitive work on the sport.
Don’t ferget yer dawg.....
Exactly, kinda like the tour guide at the Ryman telling old stories, I'm sure he added some bias but 95% was educational.
> This is the process of dehumanization, a necessary step before extermination.
No. It's an asinine comment from somebody who apparently didn't even watch the show.
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