Lost Highway : The Story of Country Music: Part 1: Down From The Mountain 4/4

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Down From The Mountain The story of the current bluegrass revival and how the music of a remote, rural region of America came to represent the “authentic” experience of the whole nation. When George Clooney made his way into a makeshift recording studio in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou he was re-living a turning point in musical history. Before the first recordings were made country music was trapped in the isolated Appalachian Mountains. The Big Bang: The Big Bang of Country Music took place in Bristol, Tennessee in August 1927. It was in a disused hat factory on State Street that East Coast talent scout Ralph Peer set up the world’s first portable recording equipment and recorded sessions with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. Lost Highway reconstructs these historic sessions using musicians instead of actors. Rodgers went on to become the first national star of country music, creating a blueprint for almost every solo performer to follow. The influence of the Carter Family, with their soulful gospel harmonies and intricate guitar playing, can be heard in every harmony group since. Together they laid the foundations for modern country music. The Mountain Tradition: Country music has roots that run deep into America’s soil and it came to life in the rural south-east mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, brought there by settlers from the British Isles. Songs would be passed down through generations and, because of the isolation of the Appalachians …

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