Country Music - General Discussion

[susannot]

The PBS documentary based on the Ken Burns documentary was brilliant.  Roseanne Cash's ex-husband Rodney Crowell was a highlight singing Pancho and Lefty by Townes Van Zandt.

[DoctorAtomic]

What's the documentary called?

[Sew Sumi]

It was something like The Making of Country Music. I just caught the very end before the pledge break.

[annzeepark914]

1 hour ago, Sew Sumi said:

It was something like The Making of Country Music. I just caught the very end before the pledge break.

I sure hope it gets shown again.  I'd like to see that.  Maybe we'd get to see some other folks who probably ended up on the cutting room floor.

[DoctorAtomic]

It doesn't look like it. I checked tivo and it's not listed.

[Lonesome Rhodes]

2 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:

I sure hope it gets shown again.  I'd like to see that.  Maybe we'd get to see some other folks who probably ended up on the cutting room floor.

It's an Evergreen which will be repeated for years during pledge drives.

[proserpina65]

On ‎10‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 2:25 AM, Tdoc72 said:

I think lunch with her and Dolly Parton would be a hoot and a half. 

They'd be up there on my list of who to invite to a dinner party.  Too bad Hazel Smith is dead.

On ‎10‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 9:43 PM, dcalley said:

The university library near me has this; thanks!

And at my public library, the Country Music 2-CD set has a nice long hold list! (There's a 5-CD one, too, but not at my library.)

I've got my library's copy checked out right now.  Wish I could afford the 5 cd set.  Sure, there are some songs I don't really care for, and there's a whole lot of yodeling on the first cd in the set, but the extra stuff I do like more than makes up for it.

On ‎10‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 2:29 AM, Tdoc72 said:

I wasn’t ready for it to end. I wanted another 2 hours from 1996-present. The Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift, & Darius Rucker, the current state of country or how to preserve the tradional vibe could have been possible topics. 

I wasn't ready for it to end, but I didn't want anything about 1996-present.  I wanted more about the early years.  What was in those first 4 episodes was great, I just wanted more.

On ‎10‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 11:28 AM, annzeepark914 said:

But, of course!  I think it was obvious that Ken Burns was devoted to J. Cash.

And rightfully so.

 

[annzeepark914]

Hazel Smith. Didn't she host movies, while sitting in her kitchen? She was hilarious. I don't know how many years ago this was but I think she even had some celebrity visit her & she served him a meal (during movie breaks). Am I imaginjng a lot of this stuff or did it really happen? And what kind of movies were featured?

[dcalley]

22 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:

Hazel Smith. Didn't she host movies, while sitting in her kitchen? She was hilarious. I don't know how many years ago this was but I think she even had some celebrity visit her & she served him a meal (during movie breaks). Am I imaginjng a lot of this stuff or did it really happen? And what kind of movies were featured?

CMT's Southern Fried Flicks. You can see some snippets on Youtube.

[lurkerbee]

On 10/5/2019 at 11:34 AM, ProudMary said:

Jan Howard is the singer who lost her sons to the Vietnamese War. Jean Shepard is the singer whose husband, Hawkshaw Hawkins was killed in the plane crash with Patsy Cline.

Jan Howard passed away at the age of 91 Saturday.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jan-howard-grand-ole-opry-dead-obituary-974788/

[ProudMary]

Very sad news. Charley Pride died earlier today from complications of COVID-19. 

https://apnews.com/article/music-charley-pride-country-music-774ff52dd02d1d857983b1e9f41fcf34?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

[Jeanne222]

Is there any discussion on the CMT awards show last evening?

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:

Is there any discussion on the CMT awards show last evening?

I was going to ever so helpfully link you to the thread -- only to discover there isn't one.  There's one for the CMA Awards and one for the ACM Awards, but not CMT.  You can start one in the Awards Shows forum.

[Artsda]

The CMT awards Toby Keith tribute was really well done. The speech at the end his family being there and the red cups.