All You Need is Love - "Making Moonshine'
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All You Need is Love - "Making Moonshine' - Country Music. Minnie Pearl on country's appeal- it belongs to the people and vice versa. Doug Kershaw, fiddle player performs. Shots of Doug's wedding at Houston Astrodome with Scottish bagpipers. Richard Nixon states how country music relates to American family life and religion. Grant Turner plugs records onstage. Carl and Pearl Butler perform ''Sundown in Nashville''. Nashville music hall of fame. William Ivey claims Tin Pan Alley dictated what was country in the 1950's. Jimmy Driftwood on origins of instruments- a bow from a bow and arrow is played. Minnie Pearl on people playing communally. Tommy Simmons, director of the Ozark Folk Centre. The Ozark region has Scots, English, Irish descendants who brought a folk tradition. People played for the love of it, not financial gain. Music was passed on by generation to generation and played by ear. Shots of fiddle playing and line dancing. William Ivey claims no one knew of this music outside of it's native surrounding until 1920's when record labels went looking for new commercial opportunities. He states that music is the commercial extension of Anglo American folk tradition. Jimmy Rogers was a leading light of hillbilly music according to Ernest Tubb. Ivey champions the importance of the Grand Ole Oprey venue in cementing country's popularity. Roy Acuff talks of playing the Oprey, Minnie Pearls discusses it's origins. Carlton Haney talks of bluegrass and Seldom Scene play 'Duelling Banjo's". Bill Monroe claims bluegrass is sung from the heart, it's pure.. Shots of rodeo riders. (c) interview with Roy Rogers. Sons of Pioneers playing. Dale Evans on performing with Roy . Marty Manning on the Texan mentality, Larry Yurdkin arguing that the Texan influence on country was to make it more slicker, commercial, leaving its roots behind. David Allen Coe performing 'I'd like to kick the sh*t out of you". Shots of Opryland theme park. Dorothy Fay on inducting stars to Opry Hall of Fame. Roy Acuff singing. Minnie Pearl on stage. Roy Acuff on the vulgarity in modern country songs. He performs "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". The reverend Jimmie Snow preaches in the Grand Ole Oprey. Webb Pierce on his guitar shaped pool. Child prodigy Troy Hess sings.