Ken Burns Country Music

[Wolfe]

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[Hit of the Week]

Personally, my wife & I have enjoyed the first two nights............

Iowa Dale

[Retrograde]

When it comes to Ken Burns, you gotta have a lot of time on your hands.

[AmberolaAndy]

One thing I noticed is that Gid Tanner or Riley Puckett didn’t get a mention.

[edisonplayer]

How about Uncle Dave Macon? Was he mentioned?BTW,my friend Jerry Donnell was related to Mr.Macon. edisonplayer

[estott]

How about Uncle Dave Macon? Was he mentioned?BTW,my friend Jerry Donnell was related to Mr.Macon. edisonplayer

There was quite a bit of Uncle Dave in Episode 1.

[edisonplayer]

I'm SURE they mentioned Vernon Dalhart!As for phonographs,the rural people may have even used something like my Yale Bluebird to play their records on.edisonplayer

[Zkeener323]

I found it interesting the comment about people who bought a Credenza, probably would not have been interested in "low-brow" music. When I bought my Credenza from a man who's in-laws were the first owners of the machine, the original record binders were full of country music records by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rogers and plenty of Baptist style Hymn singers. Some records were off-brand such as Montgomery Ward, but there were plenty of Columbia and Victor records too. I actually ended up liking the records very much despite being more worn than usual. There were some really unique records in there. My conclusion is maybe it was purchased during the depression when machine prices dropped- particularly after all electric models became more affordable. It certainly caught me off guard because I never find higher-end machines without one red-seal in sight

[OrthoSean]

I found it interesting the comment about people who bought a Credenza, probably would not have been interested in "low-brow" music. When I bought my Credenza from a man who's in-laws were the first owners of the machine, the original record binders were full of country music records by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rogers and plenty of Baptist style Hymn singers. Some records were off-brand such as Montgomery Ward, but there were plenty of Columbia and Victor records too. I actually ended up liking the records very much despite being more worn than usual. There were some really unique records in there. My conclusion is maybe it was purchased during the depression when machine prices dropped- particularly after all electric models became more affordable. It certainly caught me off guard because I never find higher-end machines without one red-seal in sight

I'm glad to have read this! About 15 years ago, I got a call from a now-deceased friend who did lots of "picking" in rural NY and one thing he spotted was an 8-30 in the basement of a house in northern NY in the Plattsburgh vicinity and he's grabbed it for me because it was "big" haha. Anyway, I drove up with a friend of mine to get it since the price was right and I had another friend who was looking for one. I was surprised when we got there to see an electric 8-30 that was basement filthy but all there complete with it's correct original albums full of records and then some. Every single record was country from the period through maybe 1933. No red seals, perhaps a small handful of popular stuff, but I couldn't believe it. They were all pretty clean too. I graduated from Plattsburgh state in 1995 and used to go record hunting constantly up there. I never saw much country or blues so seeing such a large group of them surprised me. I'd always figured that area had lots of it, however, not much ever crossed my path.

Back on topic, I've yet to watch any of the Burns thing yet, I don't tend to watch anything on TV until the weather starts to get too cool to be outside.

Sean

[marcapra]

I missed the Ken Burns Country series last weekend, so I set my DVR to record the first four episodes this weekend on my PBS station. That's eight hours by the way! You are right, you have to have a lot of time on your hands to get through this huge series! It's like Jazz. I know Ken Burns likes to have a theme to his documentaries. For Jazz it was race and the gradual designation of the races. I think from what I heard from Brian Williams interview of Burns, that Country goes along with a similar theme. Other series on his that were excellent were The Civil War and Baseball. And you don't have to be a baseball fan to like the series Baseball. It was great!