Opry Video Classics: Pioneers

Opry Video Classics: Pioneers

41 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 21, 2007

The Carter Family, Roy Acuff and the Sons of the Pioneers belong to a select group of the earliest and most successful country recording artists. Pioneers spotlights them all doing such signature songs as Keep On the Sunny Side, Wabash Cannonball and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, alongside the influential blue-grass bands of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. And when Grandpa Jones stomps through Good Old Mountain Dew, you won't be able to sit down.

Opry Video Classics: Pioneers

41 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 21, 2007

Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
The Carter Family, Roy Acuff and the Sons of the Pioneers belong to a select group of the earliest and most successful country recording artists. Pioneers spotlights them all doing such signature songs as Keep On the Sunny Side, Wabash Cannonball and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, alongside the influential blue-grass bands of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. And when Grandpa Jones stomps through Good Old Mountain Dew, you won't be able to sit down.
Producers Time-Life Video
Original title Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
Directors Marty Stuart
Writers

Cast

Roy Acuff

as Self (archive footage)

Eddy Arnold

as Self (archive footage)

Lester Flatt

as Self (archive footage)

Grandpa Jones

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Monroe

as Self (archive footage)

George Morgan

as Self (archive footage)

Ray Price

as Self (archive footage)

Tex Ritter

as Self (archive footage)

Earl Scruggs

as Self (archive footage)

Carl Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Hank Snow

as Self (archive footage)