{"id":4085,"date":"2019-10-07T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T00:56:28","slug":"country-music-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/country-music-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Music Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Anita Garner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Walk-The-Line-vertical-logo.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2254 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Walk-The-Line-vertical-logo.jpeg?resize=184%2C274\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re still talking about Ken Burns Country Music on PBS. People who know about <em><strong>The Glory Road <\/strong><\/em>asked, so I&#8217;m answering questions about my family&#8217;s music and how our history fits into the decades depicted in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the series Ralph Peer set up recording equipment in the South and pickers and singers came down from the hills to start a\u00a0 country music revolution. Ralph Peer connects to our family in more than one way. <em><strong>(See\u00a0 below.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the early episodes there&#8217;s shape-note singing, taught in small country churches and sponsored by sheet music salespeople. Daddy (Brother Ray) was there, sent with his brothers and sisters by his Mama, who insisted everyone in their house would carry a tune.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Jimmie Davis, Louisiana\u2019s Singing Governor, was already famous for <strong><em>You Are My Sunshine <\/em><\/strong>when\u00a0 he recorded a song Mother (Sister Fern) wrote. \u00a0He was responsible for the earliest acknowledgement of her songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Cash heard Jimmie Davis sing <em><strong>I Was There When It Happened<\/strong><\/em> on the radio in the early 50&#8217;s and learned the song to please his mother.\u00a0 When my Mother wrote it, the deal she was offered to get it published was to sell half the copyright to Governor Davis, whose publisher was Ralph Peer. Today our family still shares the copyright with Peer Music.\u00a0 Johnny continued to record and perform the song throughout his career. <em><strong>(See link below.)<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Johnny auditioned for Sun Records, he and the Tennessee Two, Marshall and Luther, sang the song for Sam Phillips who, it turned out, didn&#8217;t want to record any gospel. This story appears in the movie, <strong><em>Walk The Line. <\/em><\/strong>Marshall Grant, one of the Tennessee Two, wrote a book about his time with Johnny and titled it with Mother&#8217;s song.\u00a0 His book, <em><strong>I Was There When It Happened<\/strong><\/em>, is still available, I believe.\u00a0 Through the movie I met Dan John Miller, talented actor\/singer\/musician, who played Marshall in <em><strong>Walk The Line.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Dan John was kind enough to play Brother Ray at a Los Angeles reading of my play.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville&#8217;s A Team, fabulous studio musicians, played on Sister Fern&#8217;s recording sessions at Owen and Hal Bradley&#8217;s Quonset Hut in Nashville.\u00a0 When I was writing my book and musical, Hal was still playing sessions, and was President of Nashville Musicians Union.\u00a0 He was generous with his time and advice.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Wiseman, bluegrass star, introduced Mother to Randy Wood, President of Dot Records, where she got her own recording contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Joneses made their records later in the 50&#8217;s and their music mostly falls into the rockabilly\/Southern Gospel sound, but Daddy kept his hill country\/high lonesome tenor.\u00a0 He married it with Mother&#8217;s blues wail and honky tonk attitude while they sang songs about Jesus.\u00a0 When their music was re-mastered and released by Numero Group in 2005, some of the earliest fans came from progressive radio and college radio stations who&#8217;ve embraced roots music all over again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad the series was produced during a time when so many of the people who played significant roles were still around to tell their stories in their own words.\u00a0 Sadly, we&#8217;ve lost several of these pioneers since the show began filming.\u00a0\u00a0 Praise is due Ken Burns and co-producers, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in awe of Dayton&#8217;s writing. He&#8217;s a beautiful storyteller.\u00a0 And of course there&#8217;s no voice like narrator, Peter Coyote&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Park Hill<\/strong><\/em> is the mansion Ralph Peer owned in the Hollywood Hills.\u00a0 My daughter, Cathleen, later worked for Peer Music (with Ralph Peer Jr. in charge) while I was on the air at KBIG radio just around the corner. Here&#8217;s one view of the Peer mansion.\u00a0 Tucked away in and around the estate are guest houses, a grotto, and Monique Peer\u2019s (Ralph Sr.&#8217;s widow) prize camellias.\u00a0 Lots of camellias.\u00a0 This magnificent estate housed the headquarters of the publishing company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-from-Hollywood-side.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-from-Hollywood-side-300x197.jpg?resize=350%2C230\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-from-Hollywood-side.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-from-Hollywood-side.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s where Cath sat at her desk, inside the entryway, writing the company newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-entry.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4060 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-entry-300x200.jpg?resize=189%2C126\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-entry.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-entry.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Park-Hill-entry.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 85vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4062 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3-300x210.jpg?resize=187%2C131\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg?resize=768%2C537&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C715&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C838&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/park-hill-entrance-3.jpg?w=1334&amp;ssl=1 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 85vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Peer Music represents all the works of the man who some say started it all &#8211; Jimmie Rodgers.\u00a0 Daddy revered him and Cath arranged for her Grandpa Ray to have copies of all Jimmie Rodgers&#8217; recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Johnny Cash singing Mother&#8217;s song, <strong><em>I Was There When It Happened,<\/em> <\/strong>at Town Hall Party in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Click the picture for the video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pp70V6a8r00\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4111 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/johnny-cash-at-town-hall-party.jpeg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s Mother, singing, <em><strong>Keeps Me Busy,<\/strong><\/em> a song from the Numero Group album, <em><strong>Fern Jones The Glory Road<\/strong><\/em> recorded with Nashville&#8217;s A Team.\u00a0 Click the picture to listen.<a href=\"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Keeps-Me-Busy.mp3\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3401 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FERN-NUMERO-300x300.jpg?resize=298%2C298\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FERN-NUMERO.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FERN-NUMERO.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FERN-NUMERO.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 85vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>I wrote a story, <strong><em>Hank Williams Was A Friend of Mine, <\/em><\/strong>which won several awards, including a Marin County Arts Grant.\u00a0 The friendship in the title refers to Daddy, who prayed for Hank every day. I&#8217;ll post it here one day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hank-story-with-cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4057 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hank-story-with-cover-198x300.jpg?resize=198%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hank-story-with-cover.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hank-story-with-cover.jpg?w=470&amp;ssl=1 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 85vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>For years I was a voiceover (V\/O) for KCET-TV, PBS for Southern California.\u00a0 Once in a while I got to say things like &#8220;Coming up tonight, Ken Burns\u2019 (fill in the name of any of his films.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And one almost-connection.\u00a0 I lived in Mill Valley, California for years.\u00a0 In that very small town I often spotted fellow Mill Valley resident, Peter Coyote, actor\/narrator, and I always meant to say, &#8220;Nice job on the Ken Burns (fill in the name of the show)&#8221; but I never did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anita.garner.9\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/facebook.jpeg?resize=63%2C63&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anita Garner We&#8217;re still talking about Ken Burns Country Music on PBS. People who know about The Glory Road asked, so I&#8217;m answering questions about my family&#8217;s music and how our history fits into the decades depicted in the show. Early in the series Ralph Peer set up recording equipment in the South and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/country-music-connections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Country Music Connections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1287,952,1583,1588,1315,1316,1589,1592,1446,28,1322],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brother-ray-jones","tag-fern-jones","tag-florentine-films","tag-governor-jimmie-davis","tag-i-was-there-when-it-happened","tag-johnny-cash","tag-ken-burns-country-music-pbs","tag-peer-music","tag-peter-coyote","tag-the-glory-road","tag-walk-the-line"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Country Music Connections &#8211; Anita Garner | The Aging of Aquarius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/country-music-connections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Country Music Connections &#8211; Anita Garner | The Aging of Aquarius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Anita Garner We&#8217;re still talking about Ken Burns Country Music on PBS. 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