(09-20-2019, 02:53 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Watching this on PBS this week.

I am not really a big country music fan, but I do have a lot of bluegrass and some Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.  Main reason it is so interesting to me is because where I live in east Tennessee is a big part of the roots of country music.

For several years I passed a statue of Dolly Partin as I entered the Sevier County Courthouse.

I now practice some in Maynardville which is the hometown of Roy Acuff.

Archie Campbell is from Bulls gap about 25 miles away.

Every time I drive to Knoxville I pass through the little town of Luttrell (population 1,000) which has produced both Chet Atkins and Kenny Chesney.

I live about 60 miles from Maces Spring VA, home of the Carter Family.  The Carters were the first ones to record the hillbilly folk music in the 1920's that would spawn all the different types of country music (Folk/string band, Texas swing, Bluegrass, Honkey-tonk, Pop-country, Americana, Southern Rock, and even the jazz that Chet Atkins played and sold as "country). Maybelle Carter's daughter June Carter married Johnny Cash.  

Knoxville also has a rich tradition in country music because of "The Mid-day Merry-Go-Round" which was a famous country radio show in the 30's and 40's.  It produced many stars who went on to stardom in Nashville.

I also lived in Nashville for 2 years, and my parents performed on the radio in a gospel quartet when I was growing up.  So while I am not a big country music fan I was raised in it and am surrounded by its influence.

(09-22-2019, 08:05 AM)BakertheBeast Wrote: Did her statue depict her with giant breast also?

(09-24-2019, 02:03 PM)Wyche Wrote: As a fan of the "outlaw" niche and bluegrass music, I've thoroughly enjoyed it so far. There was a lot I knew, but some very interesting things I did not know about. Very well done.

(09-25-2019, 05:45 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Speaking of the "outlaw niche" how about the fact that Merle Haggard was a prisoner in San Quinton when Johnny Cash did his concert there. I never knew that.

I have this poster of Johnny Cash in the front room of my office.

(09-26-2019, 02:04 AM)coachmcneil71 Wrote:  Burns is a fantastic historian and story teller. 

(09-30-2019, 11:36 AM)Wyche Wrote: Killer picture of Johnny Cash.

(09-30-2019, 03:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Good story behind it.

I have a couple of large "wall art" posters of a classic car, a 1972 Nissan Skyline GTR, on the walls of the front room of my office.

My daughter pointed out that where I practice I should have an American muscle car (and Jesus) instead of a rice burner.

So the combination of Cash and an American flag was perfect to balance out the room.

(09-30-2019, 11:36 AM)WychesWarrior Wrote: Killer picture of Johnny Cash.

I knew that Merle was in the audience that day, what I didn't know was that Johnny broke the news on his show in order to keep the media from making it a big deal. I thought that was pretty neat of him. Cash was all heart.

(09-20-2019, 02:53 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Watching this on PBS this week.

I am not really a big country music fan, but I do have a lot of bluegrass and some Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.  Main reason it is so interesting to me is because where I live in east Tennessee is a big part of the roots of country music.

For several years I passed a statue of Dolly Parton as I entered the Sevier County Courthouse.

I now practice some in Maynardville which is the hometown of Roy Acuff.

Archie Campbell is from Bulls gap about 25 miles away.

Every time I drive to Knoxville I pass through the little town of Luttrell (population 1,000) which has produced both Chet Atkins and Kenny Chesney.

I live about 60 miles from Maces Spring VA, home of the Carter Family.  The Carters were the first ones to record the hillbilly folk music in the 1920's that would spawn all the different types of country music (Folk/string band, Texas swing, Bluegrass, Honkey-tonk, Pop-country, Americana, Southern Rock, and even the jazz that Chet Atkins played and sold as "country). Maybelle Carter's daughter June Carter married Johnny Cash.  

Knoxville also has a rich tradition in country music because of "The Mid-day Merry-Go-Round" which was a famous country radio show in the 30's and 40's.  It produced many stars who went on to stardom in Nashville.

I also lived in Nashville for 2 years, and my parents performed on the radio in a gospel quartet when I was growing up.  So while I am not a big country music fan I was raised in it and am surrounded by its influence.

(10-05-2019, 11:26 PM)jason Wrote: Merle Haggard wasn't still in prison when Johnny Cash recorded Live at San Quinton. He was there in the earlier days of his career. Johnny Cash played in prisons multiple times.

My only beef with the documentary was that it straight up ignored some of the seedier musicians that are a big part of country. Not a single word of David Allen Coe or Johnny Paycheck... Also not enough Marty Robbins... And you and I know that he could've brought it all the way up to the modern day. They did leave the last episode open ended (he did the same thing with Baseball), so maybe it will eventually be expanded. I'm nitpicking here though. I thought it was great. I liked the photo of Sturgill Simpson in the closing of the film.