The Story Of Country Music 01

Part one of this hour long film begins with the early bluegrass music and then the advent of Jimmie Rodgers "The singing Brakeman" and then the singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Well worth watching!
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[@koreyp2845]

The first recollection of country music was 1690 on the plantations with the slaves playing their native instrument called the banjo from West Africa. The banjo was the original instrument used to play country music. The slaves were tasked with playing country songs at festivities such as holidays, weddings and other events. The banjo is a native West African instrument.

[@The_Hard_Truth]

Country music originated from the UK. The banjo was introduced later. They had different instruments prior to the banjo. The only influence by blk ppl in today's country music is the banjo.

[@koreyp2845]

@@The_Hard_Truthlies‼️ 🤥 it wasn't even called country music at that time. It was called plantation Negro music and only became popular in the white communities via the black face minstrel shows that started in the 1850s. You made a claim but never have any dates times or anything like that. Very eurocentric. The banjo was an evolution of the West African Akonting instrument and was known exclusively as a Negro instrument. Lol.

[@whatchulookinatboy1393]

@@The_Hard_Truthnope country music orginated from African American slaves

[@Crtiphe]

@@The_Hard_Truththat’s cap. The UK never had such, unless they stole from other countries as usual💀. Country was started by black people.

[@dijah87]

Thats not true at all ​@The_Hard_Truth

[@donpinder1]

brings back the good old days thanks

[@carterfamilychannel]

The Carter Family deserved much more in this show :(

[@khalilthomas3169]

I love this documentary!!!

[@rziels7153]

2:53 that place is called floores dance hall in Helotes, Texas just north of San Antonio. I go dancing there every other Sunday

[@janewilson3190]

this is great! lets see some of the punks that claim to sing country yodel like Jimmy Rogers!

[@davidhunt6463]

Elton Britt. Jimmie Rodgers was his hero and his inspiration. Listen to his amazing Jimmie Rodgers Blues if you can find it on here. The long version is about 7 minutes and it's the tale of his life as told through his songs titles. The yodel in the final verse is incredible especially when Britt himself was feeling very ill and only a couple of months away from his own death.

[@skeetabix36]

Awesome documentary, thanks 4 uploading this. I'm a huge fan of country music.

[@notmyname9625]

I don’t even like country I’m just here to pay respects to jimmy rodgers n Johnny cash

[@robinjohnson1485]

Grandma RIP definitely was a Hillbilly. I loved her like crazy! She was the one who introduced me to Johnny Cash.

[@Dannys998877]

That's a fine documentary. Thanks for uploading. It does indeed give the Carters their due. The dramatic recreation of the first Carter cut at the Bristol sessions is wonderful. I did quibble about the choice of Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson to comment on the origins of country. With all the footage that exists of Maybelle Carter playing "Wildwood Flower," they had Willie Nelson comment on it and TRY to play it. He mangled it. Maybe couldn't get copyright clearance for Maybelle's version.

[@michaeldougherty8344]

Awesomeness, thank you

[@timta50ylor]

Well that was a very thorough critique!

[@aikiegacayan2632]

Were thankful to americans who colonize cordillera philippines. We the only region here in the philippines who are still continue the american western culture, specially music.

[@z_ralte_2337]

Thank u man..for this videos

[@WilliamHunterII]

As a youngster my parents tried to steer me away from country music. It didn't work.

[@NightmarexGamingx]

I dont listen to contry but i like this

[@bagnome]

The Grand Ole Opry just celebrated its 97th anniversary. Three years from the big 100.

[@kelvisshandei]

I love Johnny Cash,Buddy Holly the best Country and Blues Musicans.

[@johnnyhawkins5061]

Long live the memory of Long live the memory of Johnny Horton! Long live the memory of Johnny Horton

[@RodgerCochran]

Jimmie Rodgers started it all...

[@corporalhenshaw]

Check out "Country Music" by Ken Burns on PBS in the USA. It's the definitive documentary about the music and its Jimmie Rodgers section is fabulous.

[@michaelthornton8000]

The actual title is My Little Girl in Tennessee and this is most famous version recorded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Sometimes you'll hear people call it Little Girl of Mine in Tennessee. It is a "festival favorite" at bluegrass campgrounds. Even though millions of groups have done this standard, no one has ever done it better than Lester's buttery voice, with Earl's cracking, crisp hard driving banjo behind him.

[@paulannett6423]

i was 14 and i played commercial music off the radio...in my first band 1966/then went on to play rock n' roll original songs band/as a drummer guitarist i wrote most of the songs... then a country band needed a drummer/appaloosa! i fell in love with real country music...i went on to form my own blues band.... 9 below zero...it was amazing and i new that blues and country music was totally the same ..thankyou r.johnson!!!!.. i now play appalachian music...as a hand percussionist....ultimately total country.........all is connected from west africa to scotland to ireland to the southern states....love band...promise of the real....!!!!! but rising appalachia is a next level duo sisters with guitarist and african hand drummer...wow..what a trip!!!! p. annett....

[@centerice]

@@paulannett6423 Sounds like you had quite a ride.

[@corporalhenshaw]

Check out the other series The History Of Country Music. Lots of Carter Family in the first part of that one.

[@Dannys998877]

PS: Did you know that KZbin has posted the complete nine minute sound film of Jimmie Rodgers in the 1930 Columbia Pictures movie short titled "The Singing Brakeman"? He does "T for Texas," "Waiting for a Train," and "Daddy and Home." Wonderful to see him in performance at the peak of his career. Sadly, there was no such film ever made of the early Carter Family. In fact, I've never seen a film of A.P., Sara, and Maybelle in performance at all. None ever made as far as I know,

[@marycornett3165]

Dannys998877

[@pontifixmax]

The similarities between country music and blues music is astounding. The fact that they are completely different genres speaks to how racially segregated America was and still is.

[@abnerwhitewaterduck6723]

Amen

[@LupeVargas-er2wg]

The reason country and blues are so similar is because black people created them both

[@erichepperle5902]

4:00 - "Twang is Hillbilly soul"

[@leeleecruz5699]

I just can't believe how many racial slurs are in this comment section. Where is like blacks and whites..... I mean come on, it's 2019. We're talking about music here. Country music was created using influences of three different cultures one of them being Mexican the other being African-American and then the other being Irish slash Scottish and so the concept was put together to make a transitioned Style which is what came to be known as country music.

[@Johnny-mp2ew]

Never tell a racist country music fan to Google who taught Hank to play the guitar

[@IceMan-cp6ep]

Don't forget the Hawaiians with slide steel guitar and the Cajuns

[@gabrielparadis3434]

Bro country is kind of new sound for radio

[@smailbiko]

Superbe

[@Dannys998877]

The first seconds of “The Story of Country Music” (which began as a commercial genre in the 1920’s), shows George D. Hay and a Grand Ole Opry barn dance (maybe from 1930’s), with Johnny Cash singing Folsom Prison Blues (1955), and images of Tammy Wynette and George Jones from around 1970. A square dance to Folsom Prison Blues! It's a jumble, and it gets worse. BTW, “bluegrass” as a country music genre, emerged in the 1940’s, fully 20 years after the commercial foundations of country music.

[@vaciski]

very nice de video

[@vaciski]

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[@Dannys998877]

Hard to believe this came from the BBC. The worst offense here is the glorification of Jimmie Rodgers (great as he was), while the Carter Family is almost completely ignored. The Carters are only MENTIONED once….just their name……and are only shown in a photograph with…yes….Jimmie Rodgers. Not a word about Ralph Peer’s 1927 Bristol Sessions which produced BOTH the great early foundation acts of country music, Rodgers AND The Carter Family. (Lots of Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash though.)

[@cassiebloemendaal7694]

It sucks that one of the videos for this blocked in this country

[@Beardedmane901]

mane i love ol skool country muzik

[@peabody2884]

Both Jazz and Country music were great films. But I have to ask when will we see a Ken Burns film on Rock and Roll?

[@yamraaj4529]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@garrett3055]

Country sounds like blues without soul

[@jazzspirituel8543]

Wrong

[@davidtillwach5542]

Yes thats correct it was called Hillbilly music in the past but was changed too country music .

[@bleikrsound6127]

Shameful how country music turned it's back on it's Appalachian roots for over two decades. After a media barrage of 'Snuffy Smith', 'Earnest T. Bass and the Darlings', 'Hee Haw' and many others portraying Appalachian people as ignorant and violent, it's no wonder they adopted a more Western / Cowboy appearance and sound (IMO the steel guitar is not a country music instrument).

[@ronniebishop2496]

They never adapted a western persona ever, it’s just that the western singers who had always been playing that kind of music came to Nashville but a lot did not stay or wanted any part of it. The true west like Bob Wills hated Nashville and that hick image. The difference between country music and western is simple Western is a silver saddle and country is a bail of hay.

[@mangot589]

Ronnie Bishop sorry disagree. It’s not a bale of hay, it’s a leather saddle. A well worn one.

[@lachlanneville7138]

And now the Appalachian is really emerging once again in the form of Tyler Childers, Charles Wesley Godwin and others. Go figure

[@Pudentame]

It don't mean a thang, if it ain't got that twang!

[@exeohe]

My mom was married to Jimmy Martin “ Teresa Martin”

[@robicarm]

I can't help but disagree with "it was written by for and about adults, not teenage music" mostly all my relatives started smoking at 11, worked about 13, worked or dropped out of school, went into the military, and drove around before getting a license, married at 16 and started a family. That was the norm. The only people who live today normal had money 😮

[@jimbuford4147]

Why are farm folks characterized as simple folk? Usually very deep in the ways of life. Perhaps not city familiar but without them the city dwellers would starve.

[@Dannys998877]

It's familiar, but I can't place it. It's too bad that it's talked over by whoever those people were who were babbbling on endlessly about hay bales and country "twang." Sounds like a duet, and has a five string banjo playing Bluegrass style. I would guess maybe The Stanley Brothers, but that's only a guess. The song seems familiar, but I can't hear enough of it to place it.

[@crmycrmy9882]

White blues… well put.

[@whatchulookinatboy1393]

White ppl did t start it

[@epicgamermale6992]

US and A

[@minecrafthoulahooper4820]

Yes I, am froM ENGland AMERIKA

[@clickeverywhere3830]

Grand Ole Opry? Capital of Country Music throughout the world? wait, when did Country Music became popular INTERNATIONALLY?

[@lillyrose2707]

Australia has country stars slim dusty john williamson

[@barrymuse2201]

Jimmy Rogers and the carter family started country music

[@nickevo90]

What is that box that the announcer is using at the beginning of this video?

[@danatobin500]

Id like to learn more about the Bakersfield sound but they cut it off.

[@jaysilverheals4445]

when there was big money to be made Nashville wanted to get away from the hillbilly and hay bale concept so they dressed them up and used full orchestras for a polished sound. Buck Owens hated it and they got going with more "real playing in the bar stuff sort of return to true rock and roll of country" Nashville made it so scientific and such true business that they destroyed what it was and were making manufactured fake music and forcing everyone to do it.

[@mangot589]

JC Mills don’t agree. Sorry. The Bakersfield sound was brought to CA by displaced Oklahomans. It was a little different, but not polished. They were just as poor as any hill folk. My dad was from Bakersfield, and he wasn’t listening to any Roy Rodgers.

[@mysteryjesus]

Who's got part 3?

[@Joel-ls6fn]

Anyone know that song that starts at 2:40? Thanks

[@50sRocKabilly]

Webb Pierce - Love Love Love (From 1955)

[@Joel-ls6fn]

Thanks! Great tune

[@JamesPBrown1]

Webb Pierce is great!

[@ceciliesandstl3697]

ya yeet

[@northtimeyeah8048]

unfortunately,i don't understand quite well 'coz i speak a little english

[@minecrafthoulahooper4820]

Everybody Gangsta until they Start calling hillbilly Music country music

[@CharleneWithrow]

Lol. Didn't start at country music's origin

[@Sean-jc6cu]

@Easy Bandz you're dumb as fuck 😂 country music was influenced by Africans but not created by. Country music originated in the Appalachian mountains where there weren't many black people to begin with lol Irish fiddle songs are the basis for bluegrass music which transformed into modern country music

[@ashsingh5154]

You get white blues... LOL

[@thepolyglotraccoon]

Yep. That's it.

[@izazayahbanyahawadah]

"White blues" = country music???? Not only is it another offshoot of BLACK BLUES, The ACTUAL form it is now, twang and all, was done by BLACK FOLKS. Banjo, fiddle, harp and all. PERIOD. don't argue, do your research.

[@izazayahbanyahawadah]

@@HillbillyBoogie1 are you familiar with the term offshoot? that's like saying name me one black rock musician from the 1930s and 40s it's offshoot they're smart guy

[@gen.jews7daytheory296]

I was just debating a guy about the originators. And saw this title and said to myself let's hear what kind of lies I can expect to hear...lol...these people are shameless....white blues= county music...lol

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Irish music is bluegrass...been that way for hundreds of years and it's the same today

[@malikjohnson3129]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqXWqIuofLBnerM this video tells you where country music is really from

[@busterdouglas593]

Nah country is largely modal not based in blues, there is rockabilly though

[@silvousplais1]

What about Black people in all of this?

[@RebelAlexander]

That's more bluegrass then country

[@Grisbi6]

Blacks had their own music, but with a very few exceptions, they weren't in country & western music. Bluegrass was not Black, Rebel....

[@brandyhowell4605]

LOL

[@MrRobertbyers]

Why the British accent? These sounds and ideas were simply very segregated Southern people, relative to yankees or a upper class south. This led to a rising curve of ability and then, despite small circles, they produced numbers of very famous people . Its just about people being motivated to enter music and then doing a smart job. The idea of the cowboy defing a very Southern world proves it was a greater concept of identity. The cowboy had little to do with the west and nothing to do with the south. Its foreign. The big point really is about being in the countryside and not in cities or large towns. the cowboy is the emblem of the rejection/separation of urbanity. It was probably looked at suspiciously by the very christian folks. It really all is just the proestant hymn book and a few English folk songs. To start. They they did a better job of making great and good music. It had nothing too do with blacks, poverty, or yearnings.

[@ej3016]

Robert Byers did you not see the BBCfour icon in the top left corner of the screen - that’s why the narrator has accent - this program produced in UK

[@MelanieAF]

The original songs of country music-those sung by the Carter Family-were based upon the folk music ballads brought over by SCOTS-IRISH settlers to the Appalachians. The instrumentation of those ballads was mostly fiddle and stringed instruments such as the GUITAR as played by Maybelle Carter. Nobody stole country music from blacks. Geez. Some of y’all act like fried chicken never existed until you did it which is also untrue.!

[@donnawheeler1716]

Good ole hillbilly music.

[@mikechang7232]

Country music was created by black people. Stop the lies

[@Salmonpaper26363]

It wasn’t but live in ur bubble if u want. The media is really getting in ur heads 😂

[@mikechang7232]

0@@Salmonpaper26363 Cut the bullshit. We know the truth now!

[@kenk2306]

Can't this narrator get though his head that there in no "d" in "Ole" ????

[@coollock5912]

This is so much BS! The "twang" and country music got it's origins from black slaves! In fact, it was a black woman call "Queen Ester". She used to sing country music along with an instrument later called the Banjo! Facts! Jimmie Rodgers was just used as the face of it for white society.

[@joeshoe6184]

That is, at best, a gross oversimplification and does disservice to both the black and white artists who created what we now know as Country Music. It's more a statement of your personal political views than actual history.

[@tomjohnson441]

God there is always that one person that just wants to bring misery to anything they don't like.....Go get a hobby and be gone. This isn't your place.

[@bigpuma444]

The Irish played an equal part in Country musics foundation, yet that doesn’t fit the current narrative so their role gets criminally overlooked

[@bluegrasslives]

Man these rich ass people know all about it dont they!!!

[@eveningstar1]

When the narrator’s voice does NOT match the subject! Distracting you from what you’re watching.

[@khalilthomas3169]

This isn’t the Ken Burns version 😡

[@malikjohnson3129]

Country music is Black music tell the real story of Country

[@50sRocKabilly]

Thats not true at all, country music originated in the appalachian mountains. The roots are irish/scottish and english folk music.

[@Sean-jc6cu]

It's Irish fiddle music sorry to tell you. It started in the Appalachian mountains where there weren't even black people

[@Loveamericasave]

@Ryan Gaines black Americans made do your research,no body wants to give us credit for anything good

[@thepolyglotraccoon]

You're confusing country with blues.

[@prototypeincorporated7067]

@@50sRocKabilly Country music came from the sound of blues, jazz, and the Banjo. Black people made blues and jazz. The Banjo came from africa. The guitar was added which came from Spain and the fiddle is a variation of the Violin which came from Ireland. So the "base" of country music was from black people.

[@Diabolik771]

Country invented rap

[@mohammedzakariaali1169]

Country Music is Balck origin.

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

Not really. But you are of blackkk origin.

[@JamesPBrown1]

I mean they literally called it *hillbilly* which became country later. Taking origins from blues and gospel.

[@AlexP-jz9sg]

Nope, it's Scotch-Irish/English in origin. There is a documentary on Bluegrass and old country showing the true origin. They play Irish trad alongside country bluegrass and they literally play the same folk songs with the same names.

[@dwhoop7045]

Country music also has its roots in Southern Blues which is black ...Don't take my word for it look it up..

[@AlexP-jz9sg]

Blues itself has roots in Anglo-Celtic folk and Anglo Christian hymns and gospel music as well.

[@bruderphillip]

this BBC documentary is irresponsible, courty music originated with African slaves and is appropriated white American. The banjo originated in Africa

[@Bigk3695]

This is inaccurate. Country music started in the African American community. The Banjo itself was created in west Africa and came to the then colonies of north America in the 1600s.

[@cdubs2771]

Cares?

[@Bigk3695]

@@cdubs2771 the people they stole it from and also the people who appreciate accurate history lol. Instead of commenting who cares what should be more concerning is the inaccurate information your consuming

[@hamdeali53]

@@Bigk3695 with that logic y’all didn’t create rock because the guitar is not black😂

[@Bigk3695]

@@hamdeali53 yes it is. The guitar is a hybrid of the Egyptian/Kemet Lute and the Tanbar. They came over to the west on slave ships with black people including the Banju instrument that became the Banju. In addition, white people weren't using the instrument in that way to create that style of music. Slaves were given the task of making and playing the instruments. Gotta learn history. Lol up the Lute, Tanbar, & the west African Banju.

[@Bigk3695]

@@hamdeali53 then redo did create it if you are saying that?? Lol 🤣🤣 even Elvis Presley called zfats domino the king of rock n roll lol 😆

[@mirajrah8774]

I don’t like this at all

[@Grisbi6]

Mirajrah, I agree! Country music did NOT come from Black people. What we think of as twangy country music came from UK immigrants and ultimately Appalachia. Blacks had their own music that came from Africa and ultimately New Orleans and St. Louis and Detroit and New York: it started as blues, and progressed through disco and Motown. Neither music style was better than the other, they were just different.

[@NFamousDj]

1:12 she said you get White Blues😂😂😂😂

[@buddylove1308]

😂 "White blues=Country Music"... I could tell this wouldn't be bias.

[@angiestrausser4589]

The godfathers and godmothers of Twang were Black. This doc has many inaccuracies.

[@Bojiggulary]

i disliked because the teacher sent this to me >:)