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.
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.
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.
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. It’s a dark but appropriate moment to close with. Or maybe they just couldn’t figure out a graceful way to say that contemporary country is just not very interesting. >>
Yep. Most contemporary country isn’t just non-interesting, it’s an abomination. Especially “bro country” — mindless, insipid, frat-party pap.
Can we expect Producer Ken Burns to denigrate the contributions of Elvis Presley to this genre of popular music too?
I wonder if Frank DuBois sometimes wrings his hands because some types of music are predominately black, in terms of both artists and fans. I’m sure if Frank ever cogitated on this he would come to the conclusion that some forms of black music are racist, now wouldn’t you, Frank?
You mean Ken Burns, the bizarre toupee wearing fauxcumentary film maker who made a fauxcumentary portraying 5 punks who attempted to kill 2 people in Central park as innocent which lead to a lunatic leftist Mayor awarding them millions? Yes! Bash in the skull of a man with a lead pipe, and then beat a woman within an inch of her life and you too can live large courtesy of a lesbian looking dip named Ken Burns.
Elwood Blues:
What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire:
Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.
Aint been a good country song since “She’s a T Bone Talkin Woman But She Gots a Hot Dog Heart”
Actually the more proper descriptive word nowadays is synergistic.
schizophrenic of or relating to conflicting or inconsistent elements; characterized by unusual disparitysynergistic is relating to the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects
So just consider this as a reminder the series begins tonight on PBS.
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Yes on PBS beginning at 8pm EDT there are several hours
devoted to Country music.
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