I looked for some additional info and found a bit more that some may find interesting. The program was six years in the making. It will be narrated by Peter Coyote who voices most of the Ken Burns programming. There will be 56 separate interviews with 500 songs (partial). It will cover the years from 1923 with a fiddler named John Carson and end with the passing of Bill Munroe in 1996. There will be footage from "Heartworm Highways". I had to look this up because I was not familiar with this title. It is an account by James Szaslapski covering the 'Outlaw Country' movement in Texas and Tennessee from late 1975 to early 1976.
I will be waiting with baited breath to find what Ken has to present on Jim Reeves. Surely with 16 hours of material, he will give Jim his fair share of air time. We will have to wait and see, but I have hope....
Thanks again Mike for letting us know about this...
1
Responses
« Back to index | View thread »
TO RETURN TO THE JIM REEVES WAY, CLICK ON JIM'S NAME AT TOP OF PAGE