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With Charles Starrett, Kay Harris, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Tubb. Born in Crisp, TX, ET was inspired to be a singer by the great Jimmy Rodgers.Photo by Jim McGuire for the Memories albumThe Fighting Buckaroo: Directed by William Berke. But, truth be told, Tubb (1914-1984) had a wild side and was one of the biggest stars of his time. Judging him by today's country music stars, you might think Ernest Tubb was square and old fashioned. Ernest Tubb: The Nashville Shooting Incident.

Dive deep into the collection to find the types of movies you love. It includes links to his albums with Clarence Ashley and Bill Monroe, as well as a clip of вЂњDeep River BluesвЂќ from the Smithsonian Folkways instructional DVD DocвЂ™s Guitar: Fingerpicking & Flatpicking, produced by Artie TraumвЂ™s Homespun Music Instruction.Ernest Tubb. CDT, according to hospital spokesman.Watson had close ties with Smithsonian Folkways Records, as you can learn in WednesdayвЂ™s Around the Mall posting Remembering Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Hero (1923-2012). The man known as ''the Texas Troubadour'' died at Baptist. Music, died of emphysema Thursday surrounded by his family.

Many of these can be found on YouTube, and like the Smithsonian Folkways link above, are mostly excerpts from larger pieces. He helped listeners find a common thread across musical boundaries.The guitarist recorded for a number of labels, including Vanguard, Capitol and Sugar Hill, and appeared on innumerable radio and television shows. He gave equal weight to all genres, and found inspiration in both traditional songs and Tin Pan Alley concoctions. Watson embraced everything: jazz, blues, country, rockabilly, pop. Purists of the time tended to slavishly recreate songs they learned from Harry SmithвЂ™s Anthology of Folk Music.

Doc WatsonвЂ“Rare Performances 1963-1981 assembles clips from TV shows like вЂњHootenannyвЂќ and вЂњAustin City Limits.вЂќIt can be difficult to find folk musicians like Watson on film, the occasional вЂњAustin City LimitsвЂќ notwithstanding. Doc and Merle Watson In Concert (1980) has footage of the musicians at home. Three Homespun instructional DVDsвЂ” Flatpicking with Doc, DocвЂ™s Guitar, and DocвЂ™s Guitar JamвЂ”show a more unguarded portrait of the musician.Another good source of Watson material is Stefan GrossmanвЂ™s Vestapol Videos and DVDs.

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Watson told journalist Dan Miller that he switched from the Maybelle Carter вЂњthumb leadвЂќ style of playing to flatpicking because of Jimmie Rodgers. Warners released His Pastimes on its Jazz Singer box set.Country and rural acts appeared in a number of musical shorts of the period: Otto GrayвЂ™s Oklahoma Cowboys, The Rangers in вЂњAfter the Roundup,вЂќ Oklahoma Bob Albright and His Rodeo Do-Flappers, etc. The only popular, as opposed to classical, title was Roy Smeck, вЂњThe Wizard of the String,вЂќ in вЂњHis Pastimes.вЂќ Smeck, whose career extended into the 1960s and beyond, played the banjo, ukulele and Hawaiian (or slide) guitar. Introduced its Vitaphone sound system to the public on August 6, 1926, with a program of eight short films. But the genre has yet to receive the treatment it deserves.Rural music was treated with more respect back in the 1920s, when movies were beginning to switch from silent to sound. Public televisionвЂ™s American Masters series has devoted episodes to Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell.

Bob Wills, another Watson favorite, appeared in over a dozen features and shorts during the period. Similarly, вЂњSoundies,вЂќ a precursor of sorts to music videos, could star Merle Travis or Spade Cooley. Photo by Peter Figen.In the 1930s and 1940s, вЂњsinging cowboyвЂќ movies gave a platform for rural artists like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb and Jimmie Davis. Then I began to learn the Jimmie Rodgers licks.вЂќ вЂњThe Father of Country Music,вЂќ Rodgers filmed a short for Columbia Pictures in Camden, New Jersey, The Singing Brakeman, in October, 1929.Doc Watson backstage at McCabeвЂ™s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, Ca.

The High Lonesome Sound (featuring Roscoe Holcomb) and in particular Sara & Maybelle: the Original Carter Family present folk music the way it should be heard. One exception is John Cohen, a musician with The New Lost City Ramblers, photographer and writer as well as a documentarian. The next Coen brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, recreates the 1960s MacDougall Street/Greenwich Village folk scene.Jimmie Rodgers sings вЂњWaiting for a TrainвЂќ in The Singing Brakeman.ItвЂ™s a treat to see Johnny Cash perform in the otherwise mediocre Hootenanny Hoot (1963), but it seems to me that filmmakers of the time rarely captured the essence of folk music. Film caught up later with the Oscar-winning Bound for Glory (1976), a fanciful biopic about Woody Guthrie, and the genre was gently roasted by the Spinal Tap gang in A Mighty Wind (2003). Suddenly folk musicians were everywhere on TV. Fans could spot Merle Travis singing вЂњRe-enlistment BluesвЂќ in From Here to Eternity, but often rural music was the subject of derision, as in A Face in the Crowd.WatsonвЂ™s emergence, along with the rise of individuals like Dylan and groups like Peter, Paul & Mary and The New Lost City Ramblers, helped burnish folkвЂ™s reputation.

ThereвЂ™s always more to learn, one of the best lessons listening to Doc Watson taught me. Les Blank, for example, has made excellent documentaries about Louisiana and Tex-Mex music, and filmmakers like D A Pennebaker have dug deep into Americana music.

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