Ken Burns' COUNTRY MUSIC Documentary

In the Holding Things Together podcast somebody recounts witnessed a heated discussion between Tyler Mahan Coe and Shooter Jennings about who was greater, Flash Gordon or TarzanHank or Hank Jr.

you know me so well :)

hence those caveats!

I said this upthread, but I'll reiterate that-chronology aside-the Rosanne and Hank II segments might have worked better in the last episode instead of Ep 7, which was so concerned with connecting dots at the end, excepting the dots provided by those segments.

An interesting thing they didn't cover is, first the way Hollywood took to Country in films like Nashville and Smokey and The Bandit (and Trucker movies in general), and then the rise of Music Video and TNN.

It's weird, because the bit about Dolly going to Hollywood would've been the perfect segue into Smokey and the Nashville. They did spend a lot of time (it couldn't have been more than five minutes, but it felt like half an hour) on Ricky Skaggs' "Country Boy" video, but made little mention of other artists' videos.

I was surprised Nashville didn’t get mentioned.

Also, the Hank Jr. stuff with his mother was heartbreaking. Enough to forgive, I don’t know. But still – him choking up at Cash and Waylon being there for him was pretty intense.

I watched this, as I watch a lot of things now, with the CC on. Among other things it is the first time I learned a lot of the words to “Jambalaya.”

So one more day to watch the first four episodes. In English at least. You have three more days on top of that to watch in Spanish.

Can't think of anywhere else to post

Red Sovine is why I don't believe incels because you know this guy fucked. pic.twitter.com/Rnlm35Cgyt

— Tyler Mahan Coe (@TylerMahanCoe) October 4, 2019

lol

Finally finished this. What am I going to do with myself now?

Listen to Ricky Skaggs, duh.

D’oh!

Almost forgot about that torch passing.

Work on your Marty Stuart hairdo.

Ha, just got it cut. Sorry, Marty.

Well then, work on your George Jones flattop.

Ha, my cousin has mastered that look

work on your yodel

Now THAT’S an idea!

#goodmorningcaptain

Do you need another mule skinner?

Nudie suits for everyone!

Halfway through the Holding Things Together podcast which is holding its own.

i’m caught up, waiting for #8 to drop

Just went over there a little earlier and I have good news for you: Blue Yodel #8 has arrived in the station.

The synopsis of second episode of this show, “Hard Times (1933-1945),” says “Watch as Nashville becomes the heart of the country music industry.” Think this is a little premature.

Tell you one thing, I am not having a lot of trouble resisting clicking on the video of “British guitar reacts to the ORIGIN of country, Mother Maybelle Carter.” I’ve been down that road before.

lol

i was inspired to pick up Hag’s autibiography House of Memories.

Halfway through i think i am inspired to maybe put it back down again. :/

Why?

Maybe you should read that bio Alfred mentioned.

It’s horribly edited and full of typos mainly
But also stories that start with “i’m not advocating domestic violence...”

the caldwell bio is great but examines his life via his songs & i thought i’d like to hear his stories firsthand

Ugh, sorry

eh.. i think i kinda knew what i might get when i was going in, it was just a bummer to have my doubts confirmed.

i do want to read Guralnick’s Lost Highways now though

Lost Highways is great, especially the (now slightly outdated) listening guide in the back.

That one is good, as is almost every Peter Guralnick book I’ve read, which is most, although maybe I could go back and read them more carefully or at least another time. I saw him do an in-store for one of the Elvis books, the second I think, and he was oddly defensive.

I got rid of my paper copy in a painful purge, but now have the enhanced e-edition, with extra interviews and such, including one with the Hag.

That iconic picture on the cover of Hank Williams with a cigarillo in his mouth and some kind of defiant look on his face, the young lady next to him is Roy Acuff’s daughter, isn’t it?

In any case, I am going to use a word I assume he got from Sam Phillips which appears in his book about the same, “amplitudinous.”

Hm, there are Episode 8 Show Notes on HTT but no actual podcast that I can see.

yeah i’m wondering if they somehow forgot to post 8

Maybe it’s a sly tribute to No Show Jones.

i do want to read Guralnick’s Lost Highways now though

At least Charlie Rich is in it.

Exactly. That’s how we knew he wasn’t just a journeyman.

Well good evening,
Don’t that sun look good going down

I’m having withdrawal symptoms from/flashbacks to this. Right now hearing a mashup of “The Streets of Bakersfield” and “Delia’s Gone” in my head.

What these two songs have in common is that they were re-recorded by the artists decades later and finally became hits of a sort. Wondering what other songs from major country artists fit this bill.

Wow, Wikipedia says there have been tons of recordings by folk and country artists of “Delia” songs and that Johnny Cash alone recorded it four times.

Also is that a body double for Flaco Jiménez in the background of the video for “The Streets of Bakersfield”?

we dug up the BBC Lost Highways series on youtube and have started watching tonight. Charlie Louvin! <3