You know, I do love a good documentary: really.
And Aunty Beeb does do a good one.
The one I’ve got on, at the mo … ? Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South … !
Kind of a potted history of the music of the southern: covering, in this first episode, the various country styles of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Fascinating insight into the music, AND the man himself, I should add: you can tell Reg really don’t do square-dancing. As he’s just said, the black South and the white South were and are too different places!
Especially when we remember black-face minstrelry … !
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