Title: worth buying and wearing out
Product review: AnthologyThe AppalachiansDualtone Records 80302-01201-2Dualtone.comVery Ken Burns. Faded sepia still photos come to mind, as do talking heads speaking from paneled, book-lined offices at the University of Tennessee. This is not a bad thing. Ken Burns has lured a lot of people into appreciation of and interest in the Civil War, baseball and other documentary topics. That this anthology is a companion piece to a public television series is better than okay -- it wouldn't have existed without it.Affiliation with a themed broadcast series also kept producers' goals of sharing and educating in the forefront of decisions about what to include. The record never loses sight of Scotch-Irish musical roots, nor of the lyrical topics one would expect from ignorance and poverty, societal factors that do exist alongside us, just out of range of the CD player remote control.It is a successful documentary, and easily worth buying and wearing out.
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