Country Music

YY1 said
I found it fitting that the pretty much ended the story with the death of Johnny Cash.

I did notice a couple conspicuous absences.

I saw no mention whatsoever of "Hee Haw", which i the 70's and early 80's was pretty much the face of country music.

...and speaking of Hee Haw, they spent a fair amount of time on Buck Owens in episode 6 and then a bit more in episode 8, but I only remember one still pic of Roy Clark.

BTW- I LOVED that they said Buck took car speakers into the recording studio and adjusted his mix to sound good on them versus the likely state of the art studio monitors with flat frequency response and big woofers.

I actually did that myself during my brief live sound and 4 track studio recording phase.

It works!

I remember Buck saying in an interview that he and Don Rich were the first two to experiment by turning all the bass out of their amps and the treble all the way up. They had a signature sound for sure. Do you perhaps remember a show on TV not too long ago called "Can You Duet"? My son and I went to Nashville and auditioned. We stood out in front of The Wild Horse Saloon with probably 2500 people. Every now and then someone would break out in practice......my son would look at me and say "Daddy they SUCK". LOL We tuned up and broke out with "It's Crying Time" Buck Owens style and you couldda heard a pin drop when we got done. Got a standing ovation from 2500 people. We made it to round four......RIGHT before you got on TV. One of the producers told us before we left not to give up because he thought we were the best there. He said we just didn't have "the package". The GQ looks, or long legs and big boobs. That was his direct quote. Those shows aren't lookin for true talent. They don't care about talent anymore really. That's why they invented autotune.