All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music — Season 1, Episode 11: Making Moonshine (Country Music)

Episode synopsis

Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as it bemoaned the ill-fortune that came to every man. It was music with which all felt they could identify. As such, it occupied a unique place in white culture. The music was not manufactured, as in Tin Pan Alley, nor sophisticated, and this episode describes the process by which this change came about. Finally, we will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during one of its regular nationwide broadcasts, with a blessing to finish from Grand Ole Gospel Time. featuring Bill Anderson Doug Kershaw Ernest Tubb Jimmie Driftwood Jimmie Rodgers Minnie Pearl Roy Acuff Roy Rogers Tex Ritter Webb Pierce William Ivey and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry

About All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

A 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music covering some of the many different genres that have fallen under the label of "popular music" between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Introductory Programme
• E2God's Children
• E3I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation (Ragtime)
• E4Jungle Music (Jazz)
• E5Who's That Comin'? (The Blues)
• E6Rude Songs (Vaudeville and Music Hall)
• E7Always Chasin' Rainbows (Tin Pan Alley)
• E8Diamonds As Big As the Ritz (The Musical)
• E9Swing That Music! (Swing)
• E10Good Times (Rhythm and Blues)
• E12Go Down, Moses! (Folk 'War Songs')
• E13Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll (Rock n Roll)