Country Music on the Radio!
BBC4 are showing 'Country Music' by Ken Burns which started last night. The first episode covers the early roots and then moves into the thirties depression in the second. The whole process parallels and is driven by the development of Radio throughout the United States and it's punctuated with fascinating photos, sets/ records/mikes and archive film sections. Should be of interest whether you like the music or not! On I player.
It reminded me of a young Dylan, sitting in Duluth Minnesota, near the Canadian border [about as far as he could be from the music in the mid west and deep south]. He'd found an old Radiogram in the basement that had one C+W record. He then tuned in to those distant southern stations in search of something different.... nearly three decades later.
Dave W
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