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Ken Burns: Country Music documentary on BBC4

Will it cover both types of music? Country..... and western? :D

Can't stand the genre so prob won't be watching it... about the only genre where it gets better the more modern it gets!
 
Arkless Electronics said:
Will it cover both types of music? Country..... and western? :D

Can't stand the genre so prob won't be watching it... about the only genre where it gets better the more modern it gets!
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Thanks for your coment. It's just called Country these days. I used to be quite ignorant of it but I really like some of the rootsier stuff. I love Willie Nelson, Hank Williams.
 
Jez, a lot of the first two programmes dealt with the music that later evolved into C&W. It’s far more ‘rustic’ than the overly commercialised stuff that people tend to think of as country. In fact I’d go as far as to say that the early music had far more in common with current “Americana” than the syrupy stuff that was coming out of Nashville in the 60s and later.
 
I guess that's what I meant about it getting better as it gets more modern... I like a fair bit of Americana and "new country" but really can't stand the syrupy stuff, especially with peddle steel guitar etc... the likes of Tammy Wynette would have me running a mile! The Delines though;)
 
Arkless Electronics said:
...especially with steel guitar etc
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I had absolutely no idea what was possible with a pedal steel and I’d refuse to be in a band without one now!

PS I’m one episode into the Ken Burns thing and it was very good. It is clearly going to contextualise country in with blues, bluegrass, folk etc etc, so certainly isn’t all going to be the ‘70s soft stuff by any stretch. I’m curious to see how it progresses as I felt the jazz one was flawed as it pretty much tried to write-out free-jazz, fusion etc from history just skimming it in a single episode.
 
I watched part of the country music awards last week.
I'm not a country music fan as such but the boundaries all lifted a few years ago.
Joe Walsh Sheryl Crow and a massive band were brilliant.
It's on iplayer.
 
Tony L said:
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I had absolutely no idea what was possible with a pedal steel and I’d refuse to be in a band without one now!

PS I’m one episode into the Ken Burns thing and it was very good. It is clearly going to contextualise country in with blues, bluegrass, folk etc etc, so certainly isn’t all going to be the ‘70s soft stuff by any stretch. I’m curious to see how it progresses as I felt the jazz one was flawed as it pretty much tried to write-out free-jazz, fusion etc from history just skimming it in a single episode.
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You can thank uptown musical adviser Wynton Marsalis for that - 1 episode for everything after 1961!
 
I loved the Jazz doc, not a fan of fusion anyway. Loved all the Armstrong/Ellington bits, didn't appreciate how important Armstrong was/is.
 
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