Tuneful TeeVee, update for WEDNESDAY, August 30 2017

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We began yesterday in time for Tuesday night, and our little series will run through the weekend, and a bit beyond. Here's the latest installment of your Guide for making your own place of refuge with the hidden gems of tuneful TV.

Our little prefacing dialog from Tuesday is just below, if you missed it. Then it's on to the fresh info.
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It's so hot out that many folks are looking for excuses to stay indoors. Yep, even into the evenings when you get in from work and all you want to do is get the windows open at home and hope things cool down outside -- since many Angelinos, especially denizens of coastal areas, never got air conditioning.

Now, if the budget permits, you can get thee to some frigidly delightful venue to sup, imbibe, and partake of tunes. But it's more likely that, before this hot spell is played-out, you'll need to just fire-up the fans, deposit yourself on the couch, and hope for something worthwhile on TV. (By definition, "something worthwhile" means none of mainstream media's cable news singularity of breathless drumbeating and browbeating for the coup they're so determined to foment, in spite of America being a land of laws and modest trappings of civilization.)

Of course, we are all concerned for southeast Texas and eastward arc of the Gulf Coast -- for the people, critters, lands, dwellings and workplaces there. And for the petrochemical pollution that is sure to come from inundation -- not to mention the exploitation by Big Oil that will use any excuse, good or bad, to screw everybody at the gas pump.

But enough of all that. Send a nice donation to a good charity that's working on the ground in the flood areas. If someone is organizing a relief convoy, send blankets, decent clothes and towels, and canned food. Do not send bottled water all the way from California to Texas, because the transport cost of all that weight makes no sense, and plenty of clean water is available much closer to where it's needed. (We saw the lunacy of that one, first hand, when we volunteered in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.)

That bit of social and societal responsibility is brief but heartfelt. This edition is about Tuneful TV, so let's get to it.

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Contents / In this Edition...

1) WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S TV

2) Alphabetical Listings -- Our Picks of Music-on-TV, into early September

3) Festivals -- Labor Day Weekend, through All of September

4) Concerts and Events Picks, Labor Day Weekend, and Before 'n After

Let's get started!

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S TV


8:30-11:30 pm "LEDBELLY" is tonight's top pick for tuneful TV. It's the 1976 music biopic starring Roger E. Mosley as quintessential bluesman / guitarist / folksinger Huddie Ledbetter. Better known (even today) as Ledbelly, he became famous through the efforts of the Smithsonian Institution to collect and document roots music before it vanished with those who sang the songs. Plenty of tunes in the first half, the film's second half is leaner on the music as it engages you with the subject musician's life story. A must-see if you never have. It screens on "Movies," a "basic-plus" cable and satellite channel you probably have and may not know you have.
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5-8:30 pm "LADY SINGS THE BLUES" (1972) airs on Movies ahead of "Ledbelly." This one is Hollywood's version of the heartbreaking story of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her autobiography.
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11:30 pm-midnight "SHAKESPEARE LOST AND FOUND" (2013) is a re-airing on "PBS WORLD" of the quest of scholar Gary Taylor to reconstruct "The History of Cardenio," believed to be a lost play written by William Shakespeare.
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1:30-2 am (Thu) "TAVIS SMILEY" (2017) hosts musician John Mellancamp for a performance-interview session on "PBS WORLD."

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WEE HOURS' TV TUNEFULNESS...

There's also some good middle-of-the-night stuff (Tue. night / Wed morning) you can record for viewing at a civilized hour. All the following air on RFD TV.

3-3:30 am (Thu) "OPRY ENCORE" (2017) is the last airing of the episode with Terri Clark, Jimmy Dickens, and Ricky Van Shelton.
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3:30-4 am (Thu) "RENO'S OLD TIME MUSIC FESTIVAL" (2016) does their final repeat airing of "HATS OFF TO BLUEGRASS - Part 6." Guest Rhonda Vincent joins the regular performing cast "as more of bluegrass music's biggest names are honored."
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4-4:30 am (Thu) "CUMBERLAND HIGHLANDERS" (2016) is the final repeat airing of this episode of the weekly show. This time, Larry Elaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers share some tunes.


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ALPHABETICAL LISTINGS -- OUR PICKS OF MUSIC-ON-TV, INTO EARLY SEPTEMBER


(That one is coming to you in a later version. We didn't want to hold-up the foregoing info.)

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FESTIVALS -- LABOR DAY WEEKEND, THROUGH ALL OF SEPTEMBER


(It'll be in the full edition, to be published Thursday.)

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CONCERTS AND EVENTS PICKS, LABOR DAY WEEKEND, AND BEFORE 'N AFTER


(It'll be in the full edition, to be published Thursday.)

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In answer to Bugs Bunny and his usual question,
"What's up, Doc?"

We didn't want you to miss Tuesday or Wednesday evenings' TV just because we haven't completed our picks and listings for later in the week and the weekend and beyond.

The Guide will have a very massively complete
MUSIC NEWS edition, coming your way soon.

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PLENTY MORE is archived, back to when Lassie was a little bitty puppy dog, Napoleon was a private, and banjos only had four strings.

The entire history and past content of the Guide, since we moved the archival editions to Blogspot years 'n years ago, is searchable at the basic url:

http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com

Seriously: Go get lost in acoustica esoterica and memories of past albums, festivals, concerts and events, whenever you're bored with the pop pablum that infests mainstream media.

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See you next time!

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As always, we invite you to join us and to let us know what YOU are listening to, and what artists or bands just sent you swooning and need to be shared with others.

That's your part, so you'll know that a whole lot more is always coming soon — including fresh MUSIC NEWS, PREVIEWS & REVIEWS, and more additions to our massive guide to the MUSIC FESTIVALS of 2017.

Meantime, with everything happening through these festival-packed, arrival-of-summer weekends? Go get tuneful!


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LEGALESE, CONTACTING US, 'N SUCH...

Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?

What "boilerplate"? Who came up with that goofy term for the basic essential informational stuff...
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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS — and views of interest to artists everywhere — more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
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