If you like country music this is a must, link below, each segment (8) is almost 2 hours but well worth watching. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music
Consists of eight segments for a total of sixteen hours. My family roots are in middle Tennessee, so I grew up with all this type of music and the Opry. Watching this was like a flashback in time and really interesting. I am going to buy the set and pass it around to my aunts, all in their 90's to watch. Ken Burns only seems to do powerful and moving documentarys .
Would have loved seeing this but......."We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to rights restrictions."
Any documentary by Ken Burns is well worth watching. Country Music is one of his best. I'm on episode six.
I agree. I have been wanting to buy his documentary on WWII called "The War" for years but didn't want to spend the $80 it cost. Then I noticed it was down to $49.95 on Amazon but still didn't want to pull the trigger. Last month I went to a local gun show and got the set for $8! It was used but plays great. I'm glad I waited.
...enjoyable and informative. Already knew history/players, but learned some additional factoids like "We Shield Millions." Knew of WSM, but not what call letters stood for. Likewise "border blasters," Wolfman also broadcast from there. Started listening to country/big band on radio in '40s-'50s. Doo-wop/rock-and-roll in 50s-60s. Folk/bluegrass in 60's-70's. Finally, fine tuning my collection by taking big band back to Louis Armstrong's beginning in '20s, and replacing remakes with originals where possible. Wound up with about 1800 songs on my "Bubbler." As a kid it was worth the nickel just to watch a Wurlitzer 1015 play a record, never mind what it played. So when Rockola made a "vintage" juke that played cds like records and could hold all my music, I was there. Don't need no stinkin' memory or cloud players...
Very good. Have always been impressed with musical skill in the country music coming out of Nashville. Not like the crap we hear lately from so called popular stuff. Not even music really. They can't sing or play their instruments. I like all kinds of music, from classical to rock as long as it's good.
I knew that Dolly Parton had written "I'll Always Love You", but I didn't know that she wrote it for Porter Wagoner. I also didn't know that she had ever recorded it, nor that it was her largest-selling single ever. As everyone knows, it was also Whitney Houston's largest seller as well. 'Ole Dolly did pretty well on that one. I don't know how I missed it, but I didn't know that Cowboy Copas ans Hawkshaw Hawkins were also in the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline.
