All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Making Moonshine (Country Music)
S1 • E11 Apr 22, 1977 55m
Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as it bemoaned the ill-fortune that came to every man. It was music with which all felt they could identify. As such, it occupied a unique place in white culture. The music was not manufactured, as in Tin Pan Alley, nor sophisticated, and this episode describes the process by which this change came about.
Finally, we will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during one of its regular nationwide broadcasts, with a blessing to finish from Grand Ole Gospel Time.
featuring
Bill Anderson
Doug Kershaw
Ernest Tubb
Jimmie Driftwood
Jimmie Rodgers
Minnie Pearl
Roy Acuff
Roy Rogers
Tex Ritter
Webb Pierce
William Ivey and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry
Finally, we will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during one of its regular nationwide broadcasts, with a blessing to finish from Grand Ole Gospel Time.
featuring
Bill Anderson
Doug Kershaw
Ernest Tubb
Jimmie Driftwood
Jimmie Rodgers
Minnie Pearl
Roy Acuff
Roy Rogers
Tex Ritter
Webb Pierce
William Ivey and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry
