Birthplace-Of-Country-Music-Museum-Bob Davis Podcast 1134

Birthplace-Of-Country-Music-Museum-Bob Davis Podcast 1134

Birthplace Of Country Music Museum

Firstly this podcast is about music and specifically the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Bristol Virginia earned that title way back in 1927. Learn more in Birthplace-Of-Country-Music-Museum-Bob Davis Podcast 1134

Walk and Talk

Secondly we’ll walk and talk through the Birthplace Of Country Music Museum.

Musical and Historical

Most importantly much of the museum is musical and historical.

And it is focused primarily on audio.

Featured Sounds Headphones On

So those sounds are featured in this podcast.

How Did Bristol Earn The Birthplace Of Country Music?

Undoubtedly Bristol earned this title in the summer of 1927 when record producer Ralph Peer arrived in town to record 19 artists from Appalachia.

Greater Impact

Equally important is the fact that the so called Bristol Sessions had an impact far greater than anyone could have predicted in 1927

This Museum Is A Gem

Thirdly my listeners know I like to roll through places rather than stop. But I made an exception for this. Above all this Smithsonian museum in Bristol is a gem.

Influential Recordings

Because recording what was called Hillbilly music then has proven influential in so many music genres today.

Arrived Through The Mist Of Time

Another key point is how this music made its way to these hills.

And the songs go back to the Lowlands of Scotland, Wales and England.

Bristol Boom

Significantly Bristol was booming back in 1927

It was unquestionably a very active town of railroads, new industry, agriculture, retail commerce and logging.

Big Bang

Scholars call the Bristol Sessions analogous to the Big Bang.

Johnny Cash

Accordingly Johnny Cash called the Bristol sessions the single most important event in the history of country music.

Resonates

With this mind this subject resonates with me because music, history, and radio are brought together here.

Carter Family

From the Carter family with their photographic memories and in effect revolutionary style of playing..

All The Original Stars Of Country

To the already reigning stars of the genre in 1927 such as Earnest Stoneman.

Radio History Too

Of course by 1927 The Big Barn Dance was already on WLS from Chicago…

And the Grand Old Opry on WSM aired regularly on WSM in Nashville.

Therefore a brand new radio and record industry were just beginning to change American Culture forever.

Time Changes Everything

Finally the small towns have become cities the enclaves have become suburbs.

On The Crooked Highway The Past Is Present

But every now and then the traveler can still see places that people back in 1927 might have called home.

Up to the present time the best place to see it is The Crooked Highway.

That is to say Highway 58 Virginia which takes the traveler to Bristol, Virginia…

But, we’re all lucky they made the trip in 1927.

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Media Lies-Travel Truths-Small Town America-Bob Davis Podcast 789

Media Lies-Travel Truths-Small Town America-Bob Davis Podcast 789

To hear Der Spiegel tell it, Fergus Falls, Minnesota is a very special place these days. The town on Minnesota’s prairie is in a deep forest. A city manager carries a gun. The local high school sports iron doors and metal detectors. Moreover the mouth breathing savages that inhabit this place all voted for Trump. Learn more in Media Lies-Travel Truths-Small Town America-Bob Davis Podcast 789.

All Lies

The most noteworthy thing about this story is the fact that it is a complete fabrication. To Der Spiegel’s credit, the magazine is sending a reporter to Fergus Falls.

This time to apologize.

Dark and Dangerous Rural America

Sadly often media lies tell us more truth about biases than their coverage. Especially relevant are the new storylines about the mysterious and the mystical “rural America”. Land of republicans and Trump supporters. Dark and Dangerous. Well spring of public radio’s murder mystery podcasts. Source of the angry and red faced nationalist republican.

Small Town America

Truth is rural America is just as difficult to report on and explain as any urban center. We’ll talk about it in Media Lies-Travel Truths-Small Town America-Bob Davis Podcast 789.

Travel Is The Antidote

More importantly, travel is the antidote for the half truths and fairy tales of the media. I have traveled back and forth across this country, east to west, west to east and north to south many times. There are places I have missed but in thousands of miles of travel over the past few years, I have learned a great deal.

The New Nomads

Moreover many people have taken to converted school buses, RV’s and even Ambulances in search of their own version of America. Here’s to them.

Have A Cup Of Joe

In small towns across the US dedicated to ranching, farming, and mining people aren’t just going to walk up to you and tell you their life stories. Simple observation won’t tell you their stories either. Travel takes you through but you have to stop. Have a cup of Joe and talk to people. Get to know them over time.

Sometimes Working Together…Sometimes Not…Just Like The Big Cities

Finally what I’ve found in these places are all kinds of people living and working together. In some places things are better than in others. Reasons for decline or improvement are often elusive, even to the locals. Whether it’s a mining town or a farm town.

Politics Doesn’t Make The Man or The Town

In conclusion, I am sick to death of reporters telling us politics determines whether we are red or blue. These things don’t take the measure of the people who live in a town, large or small.

Coast To Coast and Back Again

Join me for Media Lies-Travel Truths-Small Town America-Bob Davis Podcast 789. Hear the sounds of some of the places I have visited over the last few years, from a hound dog in Mendocino, California to the total eclipse in Makanda Illinois, and finally overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the coast highway.

I’ve got a few stories of my own to tell.

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Podcast 379

National D-Day Memorial. The Road Trip continues, south from Indianapolis to Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Western Virginia. Stopping off for a street fair in Berea, Kentucky and by chance, the National D-Day Memorial at sundown, on June 6th, 2015; the 71st Commemoration of the landing by allied armies in occupied France, at Normandy. Meanwhile, more and more politicians declare their ‘candidacy for the Presidency’ and where’s the first place they go? Iowa. There’s many interesting and valuable small and medium sized towns across this country, with interesting people, that could do with a little attention from politicians who are supposed to be representing the people, but no. The entire media and political focus in this country is on the diffused population of a state that has made a tourist business out of politics, a full year before it will matter. This is how a handful of political ‘activists’, which really means ‘groupie’, ‘attention whore’, ‘fame vampire’, get to have an outsized influence on the American political process. The founding fathers not only are turning over in their graves; they’re spinning like tops. The best thing about travel is it all blurs together until its like a dream, and that’s good. All the better to turn off those idiots, and hit the road. The thing about travel is, once you let you go, and let the countryside and the experiences that go with it come and go, sometimes you get to see amazing things. This is the case with the National D-Day Memorial, which many people probably don’t even know exists, reached at sundown on June 6th, after an unexpected detour to save time, just in time to hear one soldier play taps, in honor of those who gave their lives that day so many years ago. Travel east of the Mississippi is different because the distances are shorter, but there’s more places to pull over and dawdle. College towns like Berea, Kentucky. Rocky Top Tennessee, and the birthplace of country music, Bristol, Virginia. Anyplace but Iowa! Sponsored by Ryan Plumbing and Heating of Saint Paul. 

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