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Ken Burns Goes To The “Country”

Saturday, 28 September 2019, 21:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 25

For the last couple of weeks PBS has been airing Ken Burns latest documentary, “Country.” It’s a fascinating look at not just the music, but the stories of the performers.  If you’ve missed this production, you can still watch the 8-part series at PBS.org. Here

25 Comments on Ken Burns Goes To The “Country”

  2. Nice pic of Hank + Bocephus!

    I like ’em both!
    As I said about Elvis; Hank knew only too well about cuckhold!
    “The news is out, all over town….”

    The greatest song writer in Ameican history. Could nor read nor write music.

    last century spent time in Orient and europe.

    Every “high class” bar in Japan, England, Scotland, Germany, France…would play 2 American songs every 60 min.
    a song written by Hank, usually not sung by Hank.
    2 Evlvis!

    I no longer was “dong farm laber” and could afford “high class” bars.

    Which, BTW, is why I earned the $ to get my degrees!
    Being born “deplorable” is no reason to remain”deplorabel”.

    GWB’s definition of deplorable is as big a lie as “compassionate conservative”! I have many well to do friends who voted Don in ‘6 and hope to repeat in ’20!

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  3. I happened upon this series a few nights ago, the focus of which was Kris Kristofferson. It was very good. I will make it a point to watch the complete series. It’s still on my list to watch the “Echo in the Canyon” documentary that Fur had a thread about months ago. I used to have Friday’s off and I would devote that day to music as a way to decompress from life and politics. Now, my wife and I have the same day off each week but she doesn’t share the same experience or interest for music, records, and vintage hi-fi gear. There’s a new girl at work who does, however.

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  4. The wife’s glued. I’ve caught most of them. Vince Gil, The Judds, Merle Haggard. It doesn’t get any better. We’ve recorded them all. Better times. The new Country faggots hate guns. Faith Hill and hubby the largest offenders. Fuck em

    PS, Wynona Judd did a PBS cross over concert with the Heart sisters. If you’ve never seen it, you owe it to yourself to find it in it’s entirety.

    https://youtu.be/Of5OMMhaDdM

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  5. My main question is: has Burns managed to do this series without vilifying America and invoking the not-so-subtle privileged white, male, oppressive patriarchy (of which he is a poster child)?

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  7. Occasionally PBS screws up and does some awesome stuff. Take for example this.

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/walmart/

    If you can find it, it’ll pop the wax out of your ears. It was essentially a warning of things to come. And they laid blame where it belongs. Bill Clinton assigned China as a most favored trading pardner to do his good buddy Sam Walton a solid. Can you remember back when WalMart bragged about selling only American made goods? I can. Thank God for DJT.

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  10. Being in Nashville is nauseating. Liberal whores wanting to be the next Dixie Chick. BiBoys posing as CowBros.

    Same songs over and over again. Pick up truck, jeans, beer, Friday night, what rhymes with paycheck. Even though everybody is on direct deposit.

    Wear the uniform: t-shirt, jeans, hat.

    Their is no authenticity. Raised upper middle class, singing about the suburban working class.Living for the weekend.

    Start with The Carter family and end with George Strait or Dwight Yoakam. Everything after that just sucks. The Shooter Jennings, Sturgill Simpsons, Jason Aldeans, blah, blah, blah.

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  14. So far can’t do it

    Burns has been so… “woke,” into a one way enlightenment of the benighted.
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    I would love to. But I probably have all the best footage anyway.

    Convince me I am wrong, please. And I mean that sincerely

    I would love to watch it, but “once bitten…” and Burns has bitten me more than once.

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  15. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Life lesson in judging I learned? My husband was in the hospital for surgery, he was given “horse pills” to swallow and when he protested, the compassion in the nurse came out with-if you don’t take them, no surgery AND didn’t wait for him to swallow. He choked. his call light didn’t work. Thank God he had a junkie as a roommate who was annoyed enough that his rest was being disturbed by this loud guy he got out of bed and went into the corridor and shouted, “You got one about to die in here!”

    Burns is a leftie, but the little bit I’ve seen there isn’t an agenda in this series.

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  17. This series is fantastic! Burns did not do any Liberal-Lefty garbage, thank goodness! Especially see the segment that covers the late sixties, i.e. during the Vietnam War protests. The quote by Jan Howard (married to songwriter Harlan Howard, and who lost 2 sons during the Vietnam era) is worth its weight in gold.

    Live interviews of Merle Haggard (who passed away in 2016) and Dwight Yoakam are standouts.

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  18. I have been watching it too, and I rarely watch PBS. It has been wonderful! I love bluegrass, and one whole night was dedicated to it. I remember hating country music when I was a kid, but as I have gotten older, I realize the genius of the older stuff.

    PS: I still don’t like George & Tammy.

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  19. My liberal brother from Seattle called me just to tell me about this. He doesn’t like country music but even HE enjoyed it.
    We, the plebes, enjoy popular music because we can relate to it. The other night I watched a PBS special on Bach violin music. Every musician playing Bach on various instruments was a total true genius that was dedicated to the music of Bach, the one genius musician all other genius musicians acknowledge as the best to ever live. It really drove the point home that there is an intelligentsia that most people are unaware of, whether they’re musicians, industrialists, bankers, or people that want to control the world.

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  20. I call listening to George Jones and Tammy Wynette torture and cowpie music. The series overall was very good especially about Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, I Fall To Pieces is my favorite, Kris Kristofferson, his song Why Me Lord is one of my favorites, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, the world’s oldest stoner and Waylon Jennings, I love outlaw country music, Emmy Lou Harris etc. etc. But Will The Circle Be Unbroken with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their album made in the early 70’s was the highlight, I still have that 3 record album and it’s as good now as it was then. And I’m a sucker for honkytonk and for country swing like Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, I have a 2 or 3 record album of his greatest songs as well and Ernest Tubb which I blame on my dad because he loved that music as well. It was very well done and I’m glad they ended it with a tribute to Johnny Cash and the song Hurt which is probably his best and most heartfelt song ever.

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  23. I still hate the song Harper Valley PTA sung by Jeannie C Riley, all the top 40 stations played that crappy song to death at least every 10 minutes back in the 60’s. It’s one song that needs to be to be totally eliminated from every playlist. That and Ode To Billie Jo.

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  24. I have not seen the entire series, but did see the episode about Patsy Cline and Brenda Lee. I was astonished that Brenda Lee was singing at the age of 7 to help support the family. Her father died in a mining accident, her mother picked cotton 16 hours/day and Brenda Lee took care of her siblings and sang. And what a powerful voice she had for a little girl.

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  25. 3 Chords and the Truth …. the narrator keeps coming back to that description of Country Music…. and what is the Truth ??
    The Truth is all about Real-Ville, sung by real people who have lived real lives, not fake Utopia nonsense or Hollywood nonsense.

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