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| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 11240 Registered: 5-2002 |
This is very good. If you didn't see the broadcast, you can click the link and stream it from PBS. It's an excellent biographical overview of his life, with some great cuts to interviews with various folks, lots of great footage, and of course amazing music. | ||
| artswork99
Moderator Username: artswork99 Post Number: 1920 Registered: 7-2007 |
Nice film! | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 2077 Registered: 9-2002 |
Back in the 50's and 60's, Nashville had quite the R+B Scene centered around Jefferson Street, near the Fisk and Meharry college campuses, which are historically 'black colleges', both dating to just after the Civil War. A parallel scene to Country Music, the clear channel 50,000 watt WLAC was an R+B and early rock and roll powerhouse which covered most of the Southeast, just like WSM pushing the Opry over the same real estate. Nashville is unique in having TWO clear channel AM stations, WSM (650AM) and WLAC (1510 AM, sadly no longer that format, but a Rush/Hannity/FOX talk radio these days). I remember an interview with Jimmy Vaughn where he spoke of him and his brother staying up and listening to WLAC for the blues and R+B. Nashville in those days was ferociously segregated, like so many bigger cities in the South. So the R+B clubs were in this neighborhood, and after he was discharged from Uncle Sam's Army just up the road at Fort Campbell, Kentucky (home of the 101st Airborne) where he served, he gravitated here and paid his dues with various local acts, and learned the playing behind his head, with his teeth, etc., all moves which were common stage antics in the R+B bands, but were showstoppers for the later white kids who'd never been to those kind of clubs. It's amazing that he learned a lot of his moves across town from Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl ! I saw this, and like most of the AMERICAN MASTERS broadcasts, it's really top-shelf. J o e y | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 2079 Registered: 9-2002 |
Here's a review of the now-past NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame, about that R+B Scene, from CMT: http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1485999/climbing-aboard-night-train-to-nashville.jhtml Music City, indeed. J o e y | ||
| moonliner
Intermediate Member Username: moonliner Post Number: 195 Registered: 12-2004 |
The Hendrix program was fantastic. Lots of footage I had never seen before. Really great. |
