When we were kids, my family pulled a Shasta travel trailer up to Red River, New Mexico to get out of the Texas heat for a while. My dad had been a country-western DJ, and we saw Steve Fromholtz, Jerry Jeff and the blind couple Bill and Bonnie Hearn. Years later, Steve Fromholz did vocals on two albums I produced, and I would always make an effort to go see Bill and Bonnie playing at the Cactus Cafe at UT. During college in San Marcos, I was a preppy frat cowboy - hanging out at the Cheatham Street Warehouse with Kent Finley - occasionally wearing my boots and filling in piano background. George Strait was at Texas State back then, but he was 5 years older than me due to his military service. Whenever I saw him on campus, I realized I wasn't the only starched-shirt cowboy. He was playing a lot of frat parties and local clubs. I got into fistfights at Gruene Hall back before it was a tourist trap, and before the lady owners hired DPS troopers for security. I managed to graduate from university - despite foggy moments of drinking and fighting (and nine stitches in my head from a beer mug fight). Here in Austin we would be dancing to Abba at a gay bar one night, then two-stepping at the Broken Spoke the next. I had to sit down and write this all out to determine the actual timeline for when all this actually happened. Kinda schizo for a while there, but it was fun! This video is the real deal. 😲 And for the record, I raised dairy/beef hybrid calves from the age of 7 until I graduated from high school. By the time I got to college, I had a herd of 25 mama cows. I could ride and rope from horseback by age 10. I am not a drugstore cowboy by any means...👍
First, Rich Hall is a freakin genius! Second, I've been singing and playing guitar in bands since I was 16. As much as I loved doing rock, my voice is made for singing country. So, this was great. The working dog song was delicious. I truly love Rich Hall's documentaries!
I've got to make an addendum because I used to have weekends off when I wasn't deployed. On those weekends off I would go and perform with a buddy's little band at a BIKER/COWBOY BAR with a stage wrapped in chicken wire! HOLY CATS, WHAT THE H3LL DID I SIGN UP FOR? So, somehow I became the only singer, how tyne H3LL did that happen? It was a good thing that even though I'm a Cherokee, I grew up on country and western music, so I had a d@mned big catalog of songs. Well, on the 3rd weekend, my friend, my Udo Greg found out that his wife had left him, left him flat! How country was that? Once Greg quit, then his buddy, Jim quit too, leaving the Cherokee Kid all by his lonesome on a big Friday night with a rowdy bunch of BIKERS and COWBOYS waiting for MUSIC to DANCE with the lovely SENORITAS crowding the bar. It was time for this Cherokee to break out some Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, The Eagles, Willie Nelson, etc. Well, it worked out and the very next weekend I walked in to discover the chicken wire that had enclosed the stage was gone! I was on my own. If an empty bottle of Dos Equis came out of the crowd, I'd better duck. LMAO! I played there for 3 years! Wado, Rich Hall!!
Rich Hall thank You very much for writing that song for the World, there aren't enough songs about Domesticated Canines, the faithful companions of Humanity deserve a song for every breed their kind encompass.
I am quite happy our British friends have a chance to watch this and him, to gain insight into the US and its peoples, rather than simply what's propagated out of the west coast and new york and, sadly, London, usually.
I'm almost sixty years old, been playing guitar and playing in bands for over forty of those years. I've ate, slept, smoked, read about, snorted and breathed music my entire life and Rich just made me realize - I DON'T KNOW DICK ABOUT MUSIC!
A great Doco! I must admit Rich is a great songwriter! When there was a chance I thought the next word rhyming and I sure the next word of the working dog song was going to be sh?t instead of quit, As an Australian I have loved his videos. We don't give a Pit! It's funny I have replayed it a few times and it doesn't quite feel the same. Still a great song and video. We have great working dogs out here!
When he said, "One million watts," my first thought was, "Jesus, with that much power, you'd be able to pick up the station on the fillings in your teeth." And then Rich said it - and I howled.
Man This Man Knows A Thing or two ('Written +Pres;-By;)Rich Hall +'The Music Thats 'Scored'-Along w/-Excellent Sources.Ex;'Link Wrays'RUMBLE' Plays.behind The Start of The'50's..&'That Classic Was Banned an 'Instrumental'-Banned. The 50's looked like the golden age .thats why i love these.!
@@glenndouglas8822It's almost definitely not the BBC. If it was the BBC, then they'd block the whole thing. It's the companies that own the songs that are being used in the documentary. It sucks. TH-cam's copyright system is bloody awful.
Great show!! Flint, Michigan here. Environment 1960s- Grand Funk Railroad, in the 80s groundbreaking bands such as Repulsion and Dissonance, eventually Flint spewed out KING 810, whom self destructed. Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago all produced Genre defining bands. Poor Janis, they used her up.
Check out Rich's reaction to Choctaw Bingo, It is indeed a fine tune. Shame McMurtry didn't make an appearance in the film. He's the best currently active, in my opinion.
Great, informational and entertaining documentary. My only problem is the cruel, unfair assessments of Hank Williams and Janis Joplin. Hank didn't take drugs to get high. He took drugs to deal with physical pain. And, at the end, those pills were prescribed by someone claiming to be a doctor, who was not. There was no need to yuk it up about his untimely and tragic death. And, my God, you pulled out all the mean girl stops Janis had endured for most of her life. Toward the end, Janis got clean, but then, when she decided to do one more dose, for old times sake, Street heroin had gotten much stronger. I thought you were going to mention that, instead of ending on a tasteless joke. Don't think I didn't tell you what you could do with yourself at that point.
I used to buy a record every week, because I love music. I'd spend an hour in the freaky record store in the Oxford Indoor Market, in Oxford, reading sleeve notes, because I was young and I didn't know what the music was. I just wanted to hear different music. I bought an album of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Live at the Armadillo World Headquarters. It was a pretty bad album.
Rocket Man sounds far.better as a country song! A lot of the sound is blocked, aren't subtitles possible for Rich's Narration? It's so disruptive to be excluded 😒
These need to be marked educational and art...BECAUSE THEY ARE...and maybe the audio SNIPPETS wont be censored so horribly which SUXS! The music thieves are over at Spotify , send the AI censor bots over there!
There is something maudlin and morbid in a Scot's personality where they love country music. Don't be blaming it on the English! We gave the world Duran Duran and Chubbawamba.
The Fiddle player in "I'm a Working Dog" (10:21) is brill! And don't you just love how everyone reckons that the greatest were from here. They're only "the greatest" in that particular style of music and only "the greatest" in the opinions of a limited group of Americans. You might have noticed that I don't buy into the American hubris.
i have become addicted to Rich Hall's episodes. Keep it up Rich!
Aye me too Babs!! I've watched one in the morning before work and one when I come home before my kip for the last 2 days since I discovered them!!
When we were kids, my family pulled a Shasta travel trailer up to Red River, New Mexico to get out of the Texas heat for a while. My dad had been a country-western DJ, and we saw Steve Fromholtz, Jerry Jeff and the blind couple Bill and Bonnie Hearn.
Years later, Steve Fromholz did vocals on two albums I produced, and I would always make an effort to go see Bill and Bonnie playing at the Cactus Cafe at UT. During college in San Marcos, I was a preppy frat cowboy - hanging out at the Cheatham Street Warehouse with Kent Finley - occasionally wearing my boots and filling in piano background. George Strait was at Texas State back then, but he was 5 years older than me due to his military service. Whenever I saw him on campus, I realized I wasn't the only starched-shirt cowboy. He was playing a lot of frat parties and local clubs. I got into fistfights at Gruene Hall back before it was a tourist trap, and before the lady owners hired DPS troopers for security. I managed to graduate from university - despite foggy moments of drinking and fighting (and nine stitches in my head from a beer mug fight). Here in Austin we would be dancing to Abba at a gay bar one night, then two-stepping at the Broken Spoke the next. I had to sit down and write this all out to determine the actual timeline for when all this actually happened. Kinda schizo for a while there, but it was fun! This video is the real deal. 😲 And for the record, I raised dairy/beef hybrid calves from the age of 7 until I graduated from high school. By the time I got to college, I had a herd of 25 mama cows. I could ride and rope from horseback by age 10. I am not a drugstore cowboy by any means...👍
He's my new Bourdain.
Rich is fast becoming my favorite documentary dude.
First, Rich Hall is a freakin genius!
Second, I've been singing and playing guitar in bands since I was 16. As much as I loved doing rock, my voice is made for singing country. So, this was great.
The working dog song was delicious.
I truly love Rich Hall's documentaries!
I've got to make an addendum because I used to have weekends off when I wasn't deployed.
On those weekends off I would go and perform with a buddy's little band at a
BIKER/COWBOY BAR with a stage wrapped in chicken wire!
HOLY CATS, WHAT THE H3LL DID I SIGN UP FOR?
So, somehow I became the only singer, how tyne H3LL did that happen? It was a good thing that even though I'm a Cherokee, I grew up on country and western music, so I had a d@mned big catalog of songs.
Well, on the 3rd weekend, my friend, my Udo Greg found out that his wife had left him, left him flat! How country was that?
Once Greg quit, then his buddy, Jim quit too, leaving the Cherokee Kid all by his lonesome on a big Friday night with a rowdy bunch of BIKERS and COWBOYS waiting for MUSIC to DANCE with the lovely SENORITAS crowding the bar.
It was time for this Cherokee to break out some Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, The Eagles, Willie Nelson, etc.
Well, it worked out and the very next weekend I walked in to discover the chicken wire that had enclosed the stage was gone! I was on my own. If an empty bottle of Dos Equis came out of the crowd, I'd better duck. LMAO!
I played there for 3 years!
Wado, Rich Hall!!
Rich Hall thank You very much for writing that song for the World, there aren't enough songs about Domesticated Canines, the faithful companions of Humanity deserve a song for every breed their kind encompass.
I've written a song called "Dudley"
Its about Shih-Tzu's.
Geddit?
Rich Hall is an amazing describer about American history. He's taught me an amazing insight about American culture.
Lol , weird operations
“Leave me or I’ll find someone who will.” Perfect!
😁
It's the title of a song by Warren Zevon. He never finished it but you can find a 45-second clip of a demo on TH-cam.
I never could treat her bad enough to make her happy.
Rich Hall is the absolute best at 'merican history docs. Love it.
I could listen to Rich Hall all day long
Very educational, and some nice busted myths. I've loved Rich since discovering SNL when he was on when I was in my early teens. What a class act.
The quack doctor part was funny.
Another brilliant documentary. Rich Hall is a genius.
Leave me, or I'll find someone who will....Rich has such great wit. I wish he'd do more of these. He's perfect for thses long documentaries.
What a talented and witty person , that helps break the stereo types of the US South
Another educational, interesting docu by Rich Hall. Please make more.
Loved every minute of it. Least Guy Clarke got a mention right at the end - Pity he missed old Townes van Zandt though 🙂
I wish I could watch this again, but with audio intact. As much as I enjoy all Rich's documentaries, the sounds of silence do not belong here.
I think that is because of copyright issues. Just certain songs ...... maybe the contracts expired... ????
Many, many thanks, just perfect.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love Freddie.
God keep him.
❤
I am quite happy our British friends have a chance to watch this and him, to gain insight into the US and its peoples, rather than simply what's propagated out of the west coast and new york and, sadly, London, usually.
I'm almost sixty years old, been playing guitar and playing in bands for over forty of those years. I've ate, slept, smoked, read about, snorted and breathed music my entire life and Rich just made me realize - I DON'T KNOW DICK ABOUT MUSIC!
You mean SOCCER? 🤡
@@12cm32 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another new discovery, hadn't seen his work, love it!
A great Doco! I must admit Rich is a great songwriter! When there was a chance I thought the next word rhyming and I sure the next word of the working dog song
was going to be sh?t instead of quit, As an Australian I have loved his videos. We don't give a Pit! It's funny I have replayed it a few times and it doesn't quite feel the same.
Still a great song and video. We have great working dogs out here!
Brilliant.
"Take me now Jesus"....
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Damn Rich you are GREAT value...
So fu€king estute.Thank You...💛💛💛
Bluegrass, Asleep at the Wheel, & Ricky Skaggs are all I can stand. And the gospel in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
My favourite country and western song was sung by Borat.
1:08:26-1:10:48 Jerry Jeff Walker was born and raised in Oneonta, New York, as Ron Crosby.
When he said, "One million watts," my first thought was, "Jesus, with that much power, you'd be able to pick up the station on the fillings in your teeth."
And then Rich said it - and I howled.
No you didn't!
interesting watching for a european who generally dislikes country music (but yeah never had a bad thought about willie). loved the bono line!!!
Leave me or I’ll find someone who will. Perfect.
Warren Zevon.
Was the video muted at the "brother where art you" scene?
I detest country music but here I am watching a documentary about it because Rich Hall is just so dang entertaining.
I likes a bit a country
Country is just folk for people who are inventing their folklore on the hoof
Brilliant, just thatight amount of sarcasm and irony😊
No Bob wills? No Asleep at the wheel? No Texas playboys?
Edit: Bob wills the KING OF TEXAS!
I would love to see Rich make a doc about mid west country
The story about how the studio pumping out a million watts is... Literally nuts lol!!!
Also you are awesome Rich
Why are the songs silenced but I can pull them up on TH-cam?
In SE LA we called Cosmic Cowboys 'Electric Rednecks'. I was a hippie who like Country, Western, Bluegrass, Folk.
Man This Man Knows A Thing or two ('Written +Pres;-By;)Rich Hall +'The Music Thats 'Scored'-Along w/-Excellent Sources.Ex;'Link Wrays'RUMBLE' Plays.behind The Start of The'50's..&'That Classic Was Banned an 'Instrumental'-Banned.
The 50's looked like the golden age .thats why i love these.!
'...a gaseous cloud called Willie Nelson...' Don't you think this outlaw bit done got out of hand?
Rich Hall brilliant
This is educational so why doesn't it come under fair use? Ridiculous TH-cam copyright garbage strikes again
@@glenndouglas8822It's almost definitely not the BBC. If it was the BBC, then they'd block the whole thing. It's the companies that own the songs that are being used in the documentary. It sucks. TH-cam's copyright system is bloody awful.
These are great documentaries, but what the hell is up with the audio? It keeps cutting out all the time.
20:50 First goat gland baby is called Billy. I love that style of corny journalism.
Workin' dog should be massive by now,
Great show!! Flint, Michigan here. Environment 1960s- Grand Funk Railroad, in the 80s groundbreaking bands such as Repulsion and Dissonance, eventually Flint spewed out KING 810, whom self destructed.
Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago all produced Genre defining bands.
Poor Janis, they used her up.
What about the Tex Ritter thing?
Shame so much of the music is cut due to copyright issues. A lot of music will die without exposure.
Where oh, where has Rich Hall been?
Sturgil found Tyler Childers. a fella that shares my name and my state. He's a superstar.
looks like "O Brother' got a copyright strike.
Why delete the music from O' Brother Where Art Thou, along with Rich Hall's dialogue when you can hear it in countless other youtube videos?
The quartet at 27:00 is unreal
What's with the disappearing sound?
Albert Lee is a joy
You've got to Record the dog song please
A lot of the sound has been cut out since I first saw this video... Most of the clips of old singers. Is this a youtube/copyright issue ?
I find that too
Do parts of this just drop out or is my device fucked and need replaced?
They have to take parts of the audio out to avoid the copyright strikes.
@@leow3696 figures.
Started in the Shetlands and worked it's way down?🤔🤔🤔
Check out Rich's reaction to Choctaw Bingo, It is indeed a fine tune. Shame McMurtry didn't make an appearance in the film. He's the best currently active, in my opinion.
Love ya Willie
Patty Griffin’s Long Ride Home. The perfectly archetypal country song.
I think every song sounds like the last one. One long MOAN .. !!!!!!!!!!
love this story telling, but they keep cutting the songs, I guess its because of copywrite reasons,
Great, informational and entertaining documentary. My only problem is the cruel, unfair assessments of Hank Williams and Janis Joplin. Hank didn't take drugs to get high. He took drugs to deal with physical pain. And, at the end, those pills were prescribed by someone claiming to be a doctor, who was not. There was no need to yuk it up about his untimely and tragic death. And, my God, you pulled out all the mean girl stops Janis had endured for most of her life. Toward the end, Janis got clean, but then, when she decided to do one more dose, for old times sake, Street heroin had gotten much stronger. I thought you were going to mention that, instead of ending on a tasteless joke. Don't think I didn't tell you what you could do with yourself at that point.
Great advert for goat testicle operations. Where do I sign up?
Nice to see...and hear...Lynyrd Skynyrd at 7 54.A southern rock band.Southern rock has both origins in blues and country.
I used to buy a record every week, because I love music. I'd spend an hour in the freaky record store in the Oxford Indoor Market, in Oxford, reading sleeve notes, because I was young and I didn't know what the music was. I just wanted to hear different music. I bought an album of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Live at the Armadillo World Headquarters. It was a pretty bad album.
Its almost like its some kind of small town phenomenon
The world has always been full of crazy people; it’s not a new phenomenon. Goats testicle transplant 😮
What's the deal with the lack of dialogue and singing in spots on the video.
I feel like the border collie song (which I’ve seen in other eps) is more suited to the musical stylings of Mrs Claypool’s little boy, Leslie.
Johnny cash crossed the line from country to rock no one can match him.
Why does the sound cut out in some places on this video?
If you want to know about American culture, then there is Ken Burns, George Carlin, Frank Zappa, and Rich Hall.
Chug a lug sounds like a parody of country music, a joke, I would expect it to appear in a cohen brothers comedy ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Are all of the audio dropouts © issues?
Producers too cheap to pay the royalties.
@@larryolimb9980 it's the video uploader dropping the music, not the BBC lol
Why yes they are
GEORGE JONES! GLEN CAMPBELL! RAY STEVENS! ARLO GUTHRIE!
Woody Guthrie! Pete Seeger!
Rocket Man sounds far.better as a country song!
A lot of the sound is blocked, aren't subtitles possible for Rich's Narration? It's so disruptive to be excluded 😒
O brother where art the sound?
Sadly, you can't say "art" without the "thou". It's just plain old "is" in this case.
Alternately, you could just say "O sound, where art thou?"
There are more comments than the count on this post!!!
Hey Big, got any room for little brother?
You are revealed
Democratic bullshit!!!
You good?
@@leow3696 ,touch and go I’d say.
sound drops out in sections
I’m only watching for Rich!
Not THE rich, fuck all them,
Rich Hall!
WAKE UP WORLD, RICH HALL !!!
Y’all... 🤣
Hank 3 better be in this
5:36 "Apell-aytch-en ?" Sorry Rich, Appalachian is pronounced "Apple-ATCH-in".
Did you hear the great music in this show?
I've had enough of these sound-outs
We are all gonna die...
Sooner than we want to, decided by others.
These need to be marked educational and art...BECAUSE THEY ARE...and maybe the audio SNIPPETS wont be censored so horribly which SUXS! The music thieves are over at Spotify , send the AI censor bots over there!
Already in the Beginning the Sound defining Influence of Country; Hawaii; is neglected.
No Pedal Steel Guitar without Hawaiian Slide Guitar.
What about Hawaii?
Popular Music of the USA, especially Country, Pop and Slide Guitar Blues is unthinkable without Hawaii!
There is something maudlin and morbid in a Scot's personality where they love country music. Don't be blaming it on the English! We gave the world Duran Duran and Chubbawamba.
I regret you getting your sound cancelled at times in this one.
The Fiddle player in "I'm a Working Dog" (10:21) is brill!
And don't you just love how everyone reckons that the greatest were from here.
They're only "the greatest" in that particular style of music and only "the greatest" in the opinions of a limited group of Americans.
You might have noticed that I don't buy into the American hubris.
Lone Star beer rules...
This is...DON'T INHALE...Willie Nelson...
Shame, good piece, but evidently YT is silencing some audio due to copyright concerns, or something. Stopped watching, too annoying.
Roger Miller did great guns going on to form Mission of Burma
underrated, this.
copyright strike ona public domain song
Then we got Stand By Your Man, where did it all go wrong?
LOL, Ramones shirt.
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