Ken Burns Country Music Documentary

Dolly Parton split the back of her dress once at the CMA awards when she won entertainer of the year. She borrowed someones coat to wear to the stage. She was laughing so hard and told the audience what happened and that's what you got when you stuffed ten pounds into a five pound bag. I'll never forget it.
 
So many memories. I saw Emmy Lou open for Aerosmith in 1978. she got hit in the breast by a frisbee. It was awful,
 
Sparks said:
Waylon Jennings was an original "Cricket"

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Flashback: How Waylon Jennings Survived Buddy Holly Crash

Waylon Jennings sidestepped death when the plane he was supposed to be on crashed on this day in 1959, killing Buddy Holly and three others.
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He was never part of the Crickets. The original group was Jerry Allison on drums, Joe B. Maudlin on bass and Niki Sullivan on guitar. Sullivan dropped out of the group before too long, and Holly went solo in 1958 when he moved to NYC and Allison and Maudlin stayed back in Lubbock, TX where they were all from.

The group that toured with Buddy Holly on that infamous Winter Dance Party tour (Jennings, Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch) was NOT billed as the Crickets. The Crickets continued on their own after Holly split with them, with Sonny Curtis replacing Sullivan.
 
rfisher said:
Audrey Williams was a sad piece of work. No wonder Hank Jr. wrote Family Tradition.
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Sick piece of work. I can't believe she displayed the car that Hank Sr died in when Junior was going to play in the SAME town Sr was on his way to when he died. WTF???? Who. Does. That?????
 
I like how the creation and recording of "Pancho and Lefty" was woven throughout the episode. I also like that regional country hotspots- like Austin - are featured.
 
I'm an episode behind. I had furnace people here all day Monday and I haven't even watched any of the new season of anything that I've DVRd. I watched this one in pieces all day yesterday.

But......I remember watching Glen Campbell's show on Sunday night some (they played a little bit of Wichita Lineman and even that gave me chills), and I know I've seen Hee Haw - that Pbbbt she was gone song, but I don't remember the Johnny Cash show. We were probably watching Lawrence Welk and The Wonderful World of Disney. This was back when we had three channels, so we would get to watch something else when they came on in summer reruns.

A Boy Named Sue. I remember that. I don't answer to "Sue" (not because of the song), but I remember being teased. As an adult, I've corrected people that "it's Susan". My friend's older sister Susan always did too.

Kris Kristofferson - ooh baby! once his hair grew out and the beard. He still sounded like a dying cow in a hail storm, but his songs were o.k., especially done by somebody else. That Why Me is the song that I mentioned was on the pop charts in 1973. Then the show skipped back to 1969 or something. So he got "saved" and wrote that song and went back to his drinking and drugs? He's still cute. Will they show him in A Star Is Born in the next episode - that you all have already seen?

In earlier episodes, they talked about the country stars going off to WWII. The only country Viet Nam story was the one lady whose son died over there. The rest of them were all we love the war and it's all about our country's freedom and stuff, while they sat over here and made money singing. Real patriotic.
 
Sparks said:
So many memories. I saw Emmy Lou open for Aerosmith in 1978. she got hit in the breast by a frisbee. It was awful,
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I saw her open for James Taylor*. It was a better fit musically but a lot of the people I was with had no idea who she was and didn't pay much attention. I was annoyed with them.

I also saw her play at Great Adventure amusement park 3 times! Every time I went there and she was the featured act, I was so happy.

*this was also the concert where it turns out my future husband and I were both there but didn't know each other. :D
 
Waylon had a real badass sensibility. I like that. Also the outlaw group was close in ways to rockers and I like that too. I'd love to see a biopic about Kris Kristofferson: He has an interesting history.
 
Cachoo said:
Waylon had a real badass sensibility. I like that. Also the outlaw group was close in ways to rockers and I like that too. I'd love to see a biopic about Kris Kristofferson: He has an interesting history.
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Kris Kristofferson - yeah, they didn't even cover much in the documentary. I remember a lot of stuff from when A Star Is Born came out. He wasn't just a janitor. He was a pilot when he wasn't writing songs. He just hung out at the record company trying to get his songs noticed. Supposedly, he landed a helicopter on his idol, Johnny Cash's, lawn to give him some songs, and they became best friends.

At the time, he said working on the movie was harder than ranger school. And that he was so difficult (um, drunk and high) he was expecting to be fired all the time and said “I would have fired me”, but Barbra had faith in him. And that he saw himself on screen (spoiler: dead) and was afraid that was what was going to happen to him from all the drinking and drugs and he vowed to stop drinking (again) ever. Critics hated the movie and especially his acting, and he won a Golden Globe for best actor. So there.
 
I wish they had talked more about the Oak Ridge Boys. That group actually has a very long history that dates back 70+ years.
 
I used to go see Emmylou Harris every year back in the '80s. (Blue Kentucky Girl, Cimarron, Roses in the Snow). I still play those albums and I love Duets that has the songs with Earl Thomas Conley, Don Williams, George Jones, Ricky Skaggs, also the haunting Love Hurts with Gram Parsons.

The documentary The Sound of My Voice about Linda Ronstadt is playing at theaters now. We saw the trailer for it when we went to the movies earlier this week. It has Emmylou, Dolly, and Bonnie Raitt.
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Linda Ronstadt on the sound of her life

Linda Ronstadt didn't want a documentary made about her life, and she wouldn't talk about the past for "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice." But she gave the go-ahead to filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. In her plain-spoken manner, she relives her decision.
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I'm halfway through the last episode. I finally figured out where I've seen the black lady with the dyed red hair who has been commenting throughout the series. I had to rewind to see her name - Rhiannon Giddens. On Nashville, she was a gospel singer that Juliette discovered. Seeing The Bluebird Cafe popped it into my head

And the story and the part of the song they played about that guy's grandparents that Kathy Matteo sang (had to rewind to look her name up too) made me tear up.
 
For those who enjoyed this series I recommend you check out the Linda Ronstadt documentary - I just saw it and it is great - a good discussion of the rock/folk/country meet up in the late sixties, plus she was amazing as a singer and ran her own career through several genres.
 
skatfan said:
For those who enjoyed this series I recommend you check out the Linda Ronstadt documentary - I just saw it and it is great - a good discussion of the rock/folk/country meet up in the late sixties, plus she was amazing as a singer and ran her own career through several genres.
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I'll probably cry my eyes out.
 
crzesk8dad said:
I've never been much of a Country music fan, but I must admit that because of watching this documentary, I have been putting some C/W music on my Spotify account.

Good work, Ken Burns!
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IMO, the purpose of a survey such as this, is to help the viewer appreciate the importance of the music's historical context, while finding artists they want to discover more about.

This program transcended the stereotypes associated with the genre.
 
Sparks said:
Waylon Jennings was an original "Cricket"

www.rollingstone.com

Flashback: How Waylon Jennings Survived Buddy Holly Crash

Waylon Jennings sidestepped death when the plane he was supposed to be on crashed on this day in 1959, killing Buddy Holly and three others.
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
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Well, no. At the time of Holly's death, Holly had split with The Crickets & they had retained the name, not Holly.

Jennings didn't sing with Holly prior to the fatal tour.
 
I was really surprised that the documentary did not include the Urban Cowboy film and the Dixie Chicks being shunned for criticizing George Bush. Urban Cowboy caused a huge boom in interest in country music, even if it was the glossy Top 40 version of honky-tonk music. And what happened to the Dixie Chicks - being banned from a lot of country stations, being insulted by right-wing artists like Toby Keith - showed that a lot of the themes that were covered in earlier episodes were still alive and well in the industry. Like expecting women just to be pretty and not to have political opinions.
 
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