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shadowkatKen Burns' Country Music documentary on PBS just gets better and better as we move forward. Tonight's episode made me cry and smile at the same time. It was inspiring and comforting in how it depicted a polarized country in the late 1960s and early 70s brought together through music and shared personal experiences and kindness. Also I've fallen in love with Johnny Cash (although I already was).
And come to a whole new appreciation of musicians such as Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Merl Haggard, John McEuon, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Carter Family, Charlie Pryde, and Willie Nelson.
Did you know Shel Silverstein wrote the Johnny Cash single "A Boy Named Sue"?
Or that Johnny Cash brought Bob Dylan onto his weekly variety show to sing "A Girl From the North Country"?
Or the Kris Kristofferson wrote "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Wake Up Sunday Morning"?
Also Kristofferson went to Oxford and majored in English Lit and Poetry. He has a Masters Degree in it. It's why he may well be one of the best lyricists out there. Country music has great lyrics, which as Charlie Pryde states you can actually hear -- the lyrics are often harder to make out elsewhere.
Willie Nelsen liked Jazz and blended it into his music. They didn't know what to make of him as a result. He kept trying to do it their way, with no success, and finally gave up and decided to just be Willie Nelsen. He felt everyone put a bit of jazz in their voice.
And the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band which was initially rejected by Country Music Stations, got embraced by everyone else and their album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" sung by blue grass and early country legends became an iconic hit?
It also goes into the women such as Tammy Wynette and Maybelle Carter.
[Yeah, I'm watching this live and taping a million other things. I have let's see...
Bob Hearts Abishola, Prodigal Son, 9-1-1, All Rise, Bluff City Law, and A Very Brady Renovation all being recorded. So six items, and I watched Country Music.]
Here's a snippet of the performances that aired tonight:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970.
AND
A Girl in the North Country by Cash and Dylan on Cash's Variety Show
We find our comfort where we can, don't we? For me -- it's often mostly in music. All music. Music comforts me, and calms me. And loving this documentary -- more than expected. I think because those who put it together -- really put their hearts into it.
And come to a whole new appreciation of musicians such as Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Merl Haggard, John McEuon, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Carter Family, Charlie Pryde, and Willie Nelson.
Did you know Shel Silverstein wrote the Johnny Cash single "A Boy Named Sue"?
Or that Johnny Cash brought Bob Dylan onto his weekly variety show to sing "A Girl From the North Country"?
Or the Kris Kristofferson wrote "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Wake Up Sunday Morning"?
Also Kristofferson went to Oxford and majored in English Lit and Poetry. He has a Masters Degree in it. It's why he may well be one of the best lyricists out there. Country music has great lyrics, which as Charlie Pryde states you can actually hear -- the lyrics are often harder to make out elsewhere.
Willie Nelsen liked Jazz and blended it into his music. They didn't know what to make of him as a result. He kept trying to do it their way, with no success, and finally gave up and decided to just be Willie Nelsen. He felt everyone put a bit of jazz in their voice.
And the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band which was initially rejected by Country Music Stations, got embraced by everyone else and their album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" sung by blue grass and early country legends became an iconic hit?
It also goes into the women such as Tammy Wynette and Maybelle Carter.
[Yeah, I'm watching this live and taping a million other things. I have let's see...
Bob Hearts Abishola, Prodigal Son, 9-1-1, All Rise, Bluff City Law, and A Very Brady Renovation all being recorded. So six items, and I watched Country Music.]
Here's a snippet of the performances that aired tonight:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970.
AND
A Girl in the North Country by Cash and Dylan on Cash's Variety Show
We find our comfort where we can, don't we? For me -- it's often mostly in music. All music. Music comforts me, and calms me. And loving this documentary -- more than expected. I think because those who put it together -- really put their hearts into it.
Johnny Cash
Date: 2019-09-24 05:21 am (UTC)Re: Johnny Cash
Date: 2019-09-24 10:04 pm (UTC)That was Johnny Cash. Who performed for Indian Tribes, and in three different prisons in front of huge audiences.
During the documentary - the episode "Will the Circle be Unbroken" -- Roseanne Cash said that her father was capable of being vocally against the Vietnam War, yet at the exact same time being in complete support of the troops stationed over there. He was capable of having two seemingly opposing ideas in his head at the same time. One of the many reasons I loved him. He had such empathy for others, regardless of who they were. And he wasn't self-righteous, in the least.
He was able to unite a lot of people in the music world from diverse backgrounds as result.
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Date: 2019-09-24 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-24 10:05 pm (UTC)Shel Silverstein -- wrote a lot country songs, he also was a cartoonist for playboy magazine and wrote children's poetry books.