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26) Wheeler
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English
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Wheeler is an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.
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"In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama -- what Charles L. Hughes calls the country-soul triangle. In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians...
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English
Description
Relates the history of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., longtime home of the Grand Ole Opry radio program, and its meaning to country music and Nashville theatrical history. Includes appearances by Ryman and Grand Ole Opry personnel, the writers Garrison Keillor and Charles Wolfe, musicians such as Marty Stuart, Connie Smith, and Gretchen Wilson, and others; narrated by Opry member Hal Ketchum.