Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumPeople left out of Ken Burns Country Music
I haven't seen the last episode yet. I realize that it couldn't have everyone (even in 16 hours) but here are some important ones that were excluded:
Tennessee Ernie Ford - wow!
Crystal Gayle - incredible!
Dottie West - come on!
Glen Campbell - barely mentioned
John Denver - barely mentioned
Bill Mack - The most important country DJ!
Any others?
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)I thought Jerry Lee Lewis should have gotten more mention since he did have a string of country hits in the 70s. Agree with a lot of your choices, too.
I thought it has been well done overall. I already know most of the stories, and theyre being told well.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)LET'S GO A'S!!!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)The Osborne Brothers
Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and The Newgrass Revival
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)and newgrass in general. Jimmy Martin, too.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,574 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Thanks! Wow!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Tech
(1,771 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Andy Griffith! Who could forget the Darlings?
Tech
(1,771 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Briscoe, "I'll fight it."
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)The Dillards are notable for being among the first bluegrass groups to have electrified their instruments in the mid-1960s.[5] They are considered to be one of the pioneers of the burgeoning southern California folk rock, country rock and progressive bluegrass genres, and are known to have directly or indirectly influenced artists such as The Eagles, The Byrds, and Elton John.[6] In 1972, The Dillards joined Elton John on his first American tour.[1] John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin has also acknowledged their influence, particularly in his decision to play the mandolin.[7]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dillards
Tech
(1,771 posts)cellist, and played my cello on a banjo strap on an old time string band, so I could play it like a stand up bass. This was suggested to me by the head of the music department at the university I went to. Interesting to see mountain musicians with cellos in the documentary. I also was really impressed with a fiddle player of a band I went out to see, turned out he was a violinist for the Milwaukee Symphony. So fun to hear about musicians that are fans of so many kinds of music.
Chasdev
(33 posts)Maybe not as famous as the headliners but he was a singular talent.
Winner of seven Grammys and a lifetime achievement Grammy.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)When they talked about The Byrds Circle Be Unbroken triple album.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)I actually paid cash money for one of his albums as a young teen. Loved it.
dweller
(23,632 posts)Townes Van Zandt ?
i haven't been watching so may have been...
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Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)dweller
(23,632 posts)may have to watch
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)PBS.
dweller
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Was on. I have the series but have not had time to watch them all. Maybe over the weekend, binge.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)them from the PBS website as well.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I will keep that in mind. Right now I am trying to stream to get rid of cable.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)dweller
(23,632 posts)covering 84-96
then another at 10
do you remember which Townes was on? i don't see episode #'s
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Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)dweller
(23,632 posts)maybe replay of 7 at 10pm.
will see
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Found that out by checking the guide!
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)he gets some good air time, IMO.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Who were not that important.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)It's impossible to hit on every single artist and give them all their due, but he has done a masterful job of telling the story of Country Music, real country music, and for that I'm grateful.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Never mentioned the Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati. That was huge in this area.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I think it showed Cincinnati. They talked about the Louisiana Hayride.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Bonnie Lou, Charlie Gore, Jumping Kenny Rogers. The Trailhands.one of them was our neighbor and Mailman. He sat on the porch, tuned my 14 year olds guitar.
We were at the Opry the week Roy Acuff was hospitalized. Brother Oswald came out,played the saddest guitar I ever heard. Roy passed that week.
sweetloukillbot
(11,022 posts)klook
(12,154 posts)which conformed to the Wynton Marsalis / Stanley Crouch worldview of jazz as a classical art form with virtually no important new developments since 1961(!).
I was happy to see jazz introduced to new audiences, but boy was that series disappointing to anybody with more than a superficial knowledge of the music.
yonder
(9,665 posts)just because
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)only how Gene Autry outshined him.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Roy was still Leonard Slye, sitting on his sisters porch across the street from my Great Aunt.
Roy and Trigger are painted on the flood wall. They have a Roy Rogers festival every year. Roy was from Duck Run but Portsmouth claimed him.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)But I also really liked Roy's horse Trigger.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)When he had Trigger stuffed how he would feel if she did that to him!
Fiendish Thingy
(15,611 posts)ribrepin
(1,726 posts)She's been around for ever
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)have indeed been mentioned. Perhaps not highlighted as some others have been, but at least mentioned and in some cases, given a cameo with some of their music, e.g. Glen Campbell.
I saw episodes 6 & 7 last night and Crystal Gayle, Glen Campbell, Tennessee Ernie and John Denver were all mentioned there, albeit briefly. Denver's mention included footage of this infamous incident: https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-charlie-rich-set-the-country-music-awards-on-fire-40-years-ago
IMO, Burns has done an excellent job, but there are bound to be some omissions which might chafe, especially if they include one's preferred artists.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I am still catching up with the DVR.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)MissLilyBart
(97 posts)and I thought there should at least have been mentions of
The Highwaymen (an omission that gave a really distorted view of Johnny Cash's later career, methinks)
Jimmy Dean
Doug Kershaw
Alison Krauss
Poco (as pioneering and important as any of the other early country rock acts that were mentioned, IMO)
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings
The Eagles (mentioned in passing, but still... *side-eye*) (and I don't even LIKE The Eagles...)
Linda Ronstadt
and the line dancing craze.
Also, I thought not acknowledging the impact T-Bone Burnett's exquisitely curated soundtrack for the Coen Brother's film O Brother Where Art Thou? had on rekindling 'popular culture' awareness of old time music at the turn of the new century was an egregious omission.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)And the Texas Two Step.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)MissLilyBart
(97 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)isn't mentioned at all. A founder of Outlaw Country.