There's a print book version of Burns Country Music. Taking a look on
Amazon reveals that the three page bibliography is extensive, preceded by a
couple pages on sources. Yer welcome.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:11 PM Burgess, Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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> Burns is a storyteller, and a very good one, not a professional historian.
> What you might want to do is look through the credits from his film and try
> contacting some of the folks who did the legwork. IMHO, he does hire good
> people to work with him. Think of him as PBS Wikipedia, if you will - not a
> primary source at all, but a place where one might find some useful
> pointers to the good stuff.
>
> Some of us always read the credits anyhow!
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> On 1/5/21, 7:46 PM, "Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List on
> behalf of Bob Kosovsky" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of
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>
> Sorry to piggyback on this topic, but the suggestion of asking Ken
> Burns
> really irked me. Ken Burns is not a professional researcher: He hires
> other people to do the research - he just puts it together. It's great
> that he's done so much to satisfy the people who need to receive
> information by television. But the nature of television is one of
> superficiality.
>
> For people in search of research questions, we should really be
> careful to
> make the distinction between where one could really find source
> material
> that would answer the question, rather than just mentioning people
> simply
> because they are well-known and may have had brief tangential contact
> with
> the subject.
>
>
> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
> Music & Recorded Sound Division
> The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Dorothy and
> Lewis B.
> Cullman Center
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:33 PM Dave Radlauer <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > The Country Music docu is fantastic. One of his best. Equal to
> JAZZ. But
> > good luck asking Ken Burns for anything!
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 4:14 PM Chris Brady <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried Ken Burns - he'd have found something if it exists.
> > > Also there's Tony Palmer.
> > >
> > > Wiki links here:
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_(miniseries)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Love:_The_Story_of_Popular_Music
> > >
> > > CJB
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/01/2021, Chris Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > Hi Everyone, Happy New Year. My name is Chris Kennedy and I’m a
> > > researcher,
> > > > writer and musician. I thought I’d float this out and see if
> anyone has
> > > any
> > > > thoughts or suggestions as far as rocks unturned. Elvis made is
> only
> > Opry
> > > > appearance on 10/2/54, Saturday night. He apparently sang Blue
> Moon of
> > > > Kentucky and that’s basically all the info that’s out there. No
> > > recording,
> > > > no ephemera, no ads, show programs or reviews or mentions. I
> believe
> > > > Saturday nights were broadcast on WSM but I can’t confirm that
> this
> > show
> > > > was. The LOC has Opry recordings but I haven’t come across
> anything.
> > The
> > > > Country Music Hall of Fame / Rock Hall either. I’ve done some
> searches
> > > > through the Tennessean archives with nothing turning up. It
> would be
> > > > interesting and fun to turn up something on this part of music
> history.
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
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