CST on PBS with episode two, "Hard Times." Check back with throughout the documentary debut for historical photos, archived stories and "Country Music" episode recaps. Ken Burns' "Country Music" continues Monday at 7 p.m. “That’s the people where country and blues come from. We talk about the founding fathers a lot, but the people who built this country?” ‘It’s the music of people who don’t have a lot of power. “Country music is the music of the working class,” Giddens said in one segment. Still, it’s “The Rub” that resonates most from the film’s first two hours. They were in the hills, like rock formations.” “Those first recordings and those songs, they were captured, rather than written. “It was the beginning of the building blocks for the rest of us,” said Rosanne Cash. There’s a process: We would prefer that Peter not see the script and he prefers not to. It outlines the importance of the 1927 Bristol Sessions - led by producer Ralph Peer - that would create bona fide country stars in Rodgers and the Carter Family. I would ask him for every project except those that are subject-wise African-American. The episode chronicles the Grand Ole Opry's origin in 1925 (and subsequent displeasure from Nashville’s upper class for popularizing “hillbilly” personas) and details the importance of radio barn dances throughout Southern cities and the small-town Midwest. "It came out of the black blues and mixed in with his yodelin'." "His delivery was totally unheard of," Merle Haggard said. The film reminds viewers that, in his short life, a railroad worker named Jimmie Rodgers crafted a confluence of blues spirit and country idealism with his "Blue Yodel." View Gallery: Jimmie Rodgers: Country music legend one of its earliest stars
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