Country, Folk, & Ragtime

All Let It Roll episodes covering the genres of Country, Folk, Swing, Blues, and Ragtime.

Let It Roll Originals

• Chick Webb’s Big Beat Style of Swing Led Directly to Rock ‘n’ Roll

• The Holy Trinity of Texas Gospel and a Devilish Businessman

• American Music Developed in the 19th Century NYC Underworld

• BB King's Beginnings in Memphis & the Mississippi Delta

• My Old Kentucky Home's Century of Myth

• The Outlaw Country of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings was the Second Wave of Progressive Country to Come out of Austin

• Protobilly: The Vaudeville Roots of Country Music

• Milton Brown Mentored Bob Wills and Invented Western Swing

• Rod McKuen's Songs Sold Millions of Records but Triggered a Critical Backlash

• The Cultural Blend That Made New Orleans Music Unique

• The Birth of Jazz in New Orleans: Buddy Bolden & Jellyroll Morton and Others Combined Brass Bands with Ragtime and Blues

• How Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, & Col. Tom Parker Helped Peter Guralnick Get Lost

• How Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm, Stevie Ray Vaughan, SXSW and ACL Fest Turned Austin into the ATX

• Gram Parsons' Disastrous Career Made Him a Legend

• Dolly Parton Had A Vision Of Superstardom Beyond Nashville

• Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb And The Greatness Of Wichita Lineman

• Robert Johnson Revised: What Have We Learned From Elijah Wald’s “Escaping the Delta?”

• Politics Boxed Merle Haggard Out Of Crossover Superstardom

• Buck Owens Conquered the Country Music Business

• Dewey Phillips, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Memphis music

• CSNY Tried to Have It All

• The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Black List

• Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and the Swing Era

• Muddy Waters: The Life and Times

• How 19th Century American Music Got Hot

• The First Recording Stars: Enrico Caruso, Al Jolson and Bert Williams

• Robert Johnson: Escaping the Delta

• Willie Nelson Superstar

• Willie Nelson: Nashville's Not Enough

• Willie Nelson's Honky Tonk Wilderness Years

• Chasing the Blues Legends John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, & Hubert Sumlin

Seance Roll

• Vernon Dalhart: The forgotten first superstar of country music

‘80s Roll

• 80s Roll 8: Willie Nelson ruled the country music roost but George Strait and the Judds were coming up fast

CountryRoll (Ken Burns’ Country Music)

• CountryRoll 8: George Strait, Reba McEntire, & Dwight Yoakum Re-Center Country in the ‘80s, Garth Brooks Blows the Doors Off in the ‘90s

• CountryRoll 7: Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings Outlaw Country and Dolly Parton’s Pop-Crossover

• CountryRoll 6: George Jones & Tammy Wynette Were Mr. & Mrs. Country Music

• CountryRoll 5: Charley Pride Integrates Nashville, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard Bring the Bakersfield Sound

• Countryroll 4: Johnny Cash and the Rockabilly Revolution Were Answered by Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound

• Countryroll 3: Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell and Kitty Wells Lead a Post-War Country Music Boom

• Countryroll 2: Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Gene Autry & Woody Guthrie Lead Country Music Through Hard Times According to Ken Burns

• Countryroll 1: The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers & the Beginnings of Country Music According to Ken Burns

We Dig Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus

• Blaze Foley

• Waylon Jennings

• Billy Joe Shaver

• George Jones & Tammy Wynette

• Jerry Lee Lewis

• Johnny Paycheck

Ed Ward’s “History of Rock and Roll”

• Bob Wills & Western Swing

• Jimmie Rodgers & The Carter Family

• Rock Pre-History The 1920s & 30s