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Hee Haw (the Birth of Americana?)
I've been watching Hee Haw on RFD Network this morning with the sound off and Americana flowing on the ipod. Roy Clark and Buck Owens and Donna Fargo, back in a time when only a few of us looked like Junior Samples.
Watching String Bean and Grampa Jones while listening to Julie Miller and Los Lonely Boys. Thinking about all the conversations on No Depression about old vs new, good vs bad.
The only thought I'm left with is that everything has a time, all art has an arc that looks like a flat line while we're on it.
We play our asses off and hope it'll never end, but of course it will. String Bean, in his time, was hip.
Hank Williams was my entry drug to this music, a long time ago.
Who was yours?
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My dad had a Johnny Cash tape we played a lot way back when. Heard some old country stuff too. "They Year That Clayton Delaney Died" by Tom T. Hall stuck in my mind. Yes, Hee Haw was on TV too and I watched a fair amount, though I don't remember the music other than Buck Owens himself.
Next I got hooked on Jim Croce and for some reason I consider that a key part of the journey.
In the 80's I found Kristofferson, Lone Justice, James McMurtry, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam... and Austin City Limits.
But really the gateway to opening up the whole genre was when I found Robert Earl Keen, which eventually led me here.
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