LOST HIGHWAY: THE STORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC (2003)

The Lost Highway - Part One Down From The Mountain The story of the current bluegrass revival and how the music of a remote, rural region of America came to represent the "authentic" experience of the whole nation. When George Clooney made his way into a makeshift recording studio in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou he was re-living a turning point in musical history. Before the first recordings were made country music was trapped in the isolated Appalachian Mountains. The Big Bang: The Big Bang of Country Music took place in Bristol, Tennessee in August 1927. It was in a disused hat factory on State Street that East Coast talent scout Ralph Peer set up the world's first portable recording equipment and recorded sessions with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. Lost Highway reconstructs these historic sessions using musicians instead of actors. Rodgers went on to become the first national star of country music, creating a blueprint for almost every solo performer to follow. The in