Janet Hess' link works far, far, far better than mine, thanks Janet, and
to get more specific, the Joni content (she's a featured performer)
will be on Wednesday, not today
for all of the episodes, link to
http://www.bravotv.com/sections/festivals_popular_episodes.php
but for the details of Wednesday's Joni content,
Episode #6 Wednesday August 16th
7pm & 11pm ET
8pm & 11pm PT
Part Six looks at music of the late Sixties and early Seventies, a time
when Rock 'n'
Roll took as sudden a turn as the teenagers who grew up on it did.
Upheavals in
society such as Vietnam, the deaths of the Kennedy brothers and Martin
Luther King,
Jr. and the tragedy at Altamont, even the breakup of the Beatles, took
their toll on a
society of young men and women who had led a freewheeling youth, and
this was
reflected in the music of the time. As the golden age of the Beatles
finished, so did
the golden age of America ? and for both, a new age of highly personal
lyrical
navel-gazing took flight. As old groups disbanded (The Birds, Buffalo
Springfield and the Hollies), new groups were formed (Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young). By the
mid-Seventies the mellow sound of the Eagles was the best-selling music
in the world.
But with punk looming over the horizon, the backlash was only a moment
away.
Featured Artists:: America, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
Eagles, The
Grateful Dead, The Band, Joni Mitchell
Commentators: Carole King, David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Robbie Robertson,
Roger
McGuinn
