"Lost Highway - The Story Of Country Music"

Colin Escott's bk on Sun is terrific, tho', so maybe his series tie-in bk is gd too (and I've seen the excellent Rough Guide to Country in Remainder bkshops recently for abt £4 - now that's a real bargain)

Great stuff on the wondrous Gillian Welch but the implication that in having her own recording studio she was at last living out the dream of earlier (less emancipated) artists was typical of the wish-is-father-of-the-thought approach. Shania - gorgeous, rich, A-list celeb - is a much more accurate embodiment of the dream pursued by Dolly, Loretta et al.

I picked that one up as well, and was reading it yesterday to check up on Jean Shepard and Loretta Lynn after Saturday's episode.

Excellent series, but I missed the first unfortunately. Presumably that was all about Jimmie Rodgers & co?

Unlike Andrew I particularly enjoyed the 'outlaws' episode though. Fair enough about the Hank III ending, but I thought it was still pretty good overall. And the theory that most progress in country music has come from people considered 'outlaws' at the time was well demonstrated (if not the most original idea in the world).

OMG I have spent the last three years trying to remember what this program was called and only just figured it out with the help of google. I remember seeing the last episode, definitely don't remember it being this long ago, but this was amazingly great and would love to see again.

In fact if anyone has a copy of this please please please get in contact with me by webmail or however.

thebox.bz has it

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