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Talkin' Country "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" (1945 – 1953)

Episode 3 | 25m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Songwriter Charley Sandage and acoustic musician Tim Crouch, fiddle player.

Songwriter Charley Sandage and acoustic musician Tim Crouch, fiddle player for Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson and others discuss with host Bob Robbins the third episode of Ken Burns "Country Music." The bluegrass sound spreads in post-war America, and honky-tonk star Hank Williams sings songs of surprising emotional depth that are derived from his troubled and tragically short life.

09/18/2019

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Talkin' Country is a local public television program presented by Arkansas PBS

Talkin' Country "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" (1945 – 1953)

Episode 3 | 25m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Songwriter Charley Sandage and acoustic musician Tim Crouch, fiddle player for Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson and others discuss with host Bob Robbins the third episode of Ken Burns "Country Music." The bluegrass sound spreads in post-war America, and honky-tonk star Hank Williams sings songs of surprising emotional depth that are derived from his troubled and tragically short life.

09/18/2019

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