Watched most of it again last night, recorded the rest for later. It's getting better, but I think they're leaving a lot of early artists and their music out, while concentrating on the better known ones.. Also, they're still pushing the Negroes, and implying as to how they had all this influence on country music, because it's always been the liberals desire to prop the Negroes up.
They had a long segment on Gene Autry, and being an Autry fan, I enjoyed that part. I had forgotten about his role in WW2 and the dangerous job he had. I cannot imagine a single one of todays celebrities or singers putting their career on hold, and joining the military to fight for the country.
I watched some of it last night but I turned it when they gave the credit to negroes for inventing it. Whites just ripped it off...
Typical pbs bullshit.
Okay......let's be honest about things, because with this being the year 2019, and political correctness being the norm, and the White man, and in particular the Southern Conservative White man, being the root of all the countries problems, we all know how that good liberal news outlet, PBS, is going to spin things.
So, with that out of the way, there is no doubt in my mind that Black folks, being the singers and musicians that many of them are, have had an influence on America's music. However, with Blacks being the percentage of the population that they are, that influence has not been as great as we have been led to believe. I have always liked country music, and I like the pre 1980's music better than the new stuff, and I like the history of the early days. It is my thinking that if Blacks had so much influence, then there would have been some Black country music performers before Charley Pride came along. But, there weren't, because they didn't go for country music, they were into the blues and jazz.
The list of great Black singers and musicians in blues and jazz, and later on rock and roll, is numerous, yet not so in country music......the music that Ken Burns and PBS would have us believe they helped invent. The damned liberals just cannot tell the truth, even though the truth is obvious here.
I can already pat juba and dance just like this, but I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be able to play this type of banjo just like uncle John!!! Suppose I’m too old a dawg to learn now. I wouldn’t know where to start.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
After Ken Burns tried to teach me that the real Vietnam War heroes were acid-dropping, lice infested, anti-American protesters, I rather lost interest in him.
I can already pat juba and dance just like this, but I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be able to play this type of banjo just like uncle John!!! Suppose I’m too old a dawg to learn now. I wouldn’t know where to start.
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After Ken Burns tried to teach me that the real Vietnam War heroes were acid-dropping, lice infested, anti-American protesters, I rather lost interest in him.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
How many of you have had a one-on-one conversation with Sarah Cannon when she was not in character as Minnie Pearl, like I have? A finer, more compassionate southern lady does not exist, then or now. The Vanderbilt Hospital cancer center bears her name, proudly. Jerry
Thanks for the correction. It's amusing, looking at the opinions of all these people who have no idea about the inner workings of the music business in Nashville. I could print out this thread and grind it up, and have some very good fertilizer for my garden! Jerry