Country Music — S01E06 — Will The Circle Be Unbroken? (1968 -1972)

00:00:03 CONGREGATION: ♪ WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN ♪

00:06:21 THAT BLUEGRASS, YOU KNOW, GOT MARGINALIZED.

00:10:22 BUT "AFTER IT SOLD 100,000 COPIES, WE JUST LEARNED

00:14:47 JONES: ♪ OOH, WHITE LIGHTNING ♪

00:18:32 JONES WAS 37 YEARS OLD AND A MAJOR STAR.

00:23:33 IT'S GONNA BE FINE."

00:27:32 BIGGEST RECORD EVER, SELLING 5 MILLION COPIES, EARNING

00:32:12 EVER HAD WAS "MAY THE BIRD OF PARADISE FLY UP YOUR NOSE."

00:36:45 AND PETE SEEGER'S "TURN, TURN, TURN"

00:40:38 AND I FOUND OUT THAT HE HAD BEEN TO OXFORD AND THAT HE HAD

00:44:28 ASHTRAYS, AND SOMETIMES SLIPPING DEMO TAPES AND

00:48:18 "HOW DOES THAT GRAB YA? ME AND BOBBIE McKEE?"

00:53:07 HIS LIVE PERFORMANCES NOW WERE PLAYED BEFORE HUGE AUDIENCES...

00:58:48 I KNOW IT.

01:04:28 AND AMERICA KNEW WHAT HE WAS SINGING ABOUT.

01:10:10 WHEN HE WAS PERFORMING IT, HE SANG,

01:14:13 GIDDENS: MY GRANDMOTHER, MY BLACK GRANDMOTHER,

01:18:53 HE HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN AND COMMITTED SUICIDE.

01:22:56 ANTI-VIETNAM, PRO-VIETNAM;

01:27:52 AND THE NEED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST INJUSTICE.

01:32:20 NARRATOR: WITH HIS SONGWRITING ROYALTIES, NELSON MANAGED

01:36:38 TO THE SONG CAME TO ME SHORTLY AFTER.

01:41:22 WE WANTED TO MAKE AN OLD RECORD.

01:47:05 ALL: ♪ BY AND BY, LORD, BY AND BY ♪