Not getting HBO makes me want to hear more of what folks have to say about this documentary. But I suspect none of this is any secret to the likes of Sandy and Caroline Paton and Allan Lomax and the Warners who have/had many friends in these regions who sang their songs and opened their doors to them. It's surely where so many of the songs and ballads we venerate came from. Unless I'm completely wrong in my assumptions, what with not having viewed the program myself, Jean and Edna Ritchie and all their family, with all their love and wonderful music, grew up like this in Kentucky.

Art Thieme