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Tonight's episode is better than last night's.

Enjoyed it and I am not a country music fan.

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.

Wow. That was your takeaway?

Yep.

Still can't understand the appeal of Minnie Pearl, either. 😂

I watched some of it. Better than I thought it might be, just wait, it's bound to come.

Me neither.

Least now we know where neegroes copied that "leavin dat price tag on muh nba hat"

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.

If its that distasteful to you, maybe there would be something else to watch?

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.

I see it was written by David Dunkin, an Iowa boy. Dunkin wrote a book, "Miles from nowhere". about the American west. A bit dry reading, but good.

I would love to learn to play the banjo.

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.

whens u chillens get done stompin that chiggin shît flat, mama needs u to mash dem grapes in nem barrowels

YES.

I gets dem right awn it!

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

I was going to mention the hospital, but I got sidetracked on the negroe price tag analogy.

Thanks for adding that back in.

Btw, it's over at the Centennial Tri-Star hospital, not Vanderbilt.

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