When you stop by KICKING UP DUST  you will be visiting a Virtual Music  Museum.  Through time

we are going to load this site with much history and data about the evolution of the entertainment business...from the Native American drum to the guitar that the Spanish brought across the Rio Grande with the horse, the cow and the guitar.  This CYBERSEQUEL eDOCUMENTARY  will take you on a multimedia ride from barn dances to Internet Cybercasts.  We will see how the technological inventions

of the time spurred on the evolution of the entertainment business.  We will see how the train, the

telegraph and other early inventions began to help create a Nation, and how the music changed with

the times.

 

We will be using some of the new digital forms of communication, and the new developments in tech-
nology to tell you the story about the inventions that brought us to the present stage that the entertain-
ment business is in at the close of a millennium.  You'll be able to travel through different areas and
different time-lines by clicking the hyper links that you will find throughout the Saga.  We will create a
sense of immersion into history.  You be your own guide, we will give you trails and tracks to follow
the musical saga KUD.

 

KUD will take you on a multimedia ride down a historical trail that is truly American.  KUD follows the
musical trail cut by minstrel troupes, medicine shows and  Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show,
that toured Broadway and the World in the early eighteen eighties.  From mountain music of the East,
"race" and "hillbilly" music, jazz, blues and gospel music of the South, and other influences that were
fusing to create a music that was to become a timeless tradition...from the cowboys singing "Western"
music on the lonely trail drives of yesteryear, cuttin' a musical trail for legends like Jimmie Rodgers,
"The Father of Country Music"...and who inspired folks like Gene Autry, Buck Page, Woody Guthrie
and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, you will learn tales about the "First Family of Country Music" The Carter
Family, then to those that followed in the paths of all these great Icons and how they influenced folks
like Lefty Frizzell, Elvis, Bob Dylan, the Gratefull Dead, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson and those
that followed.

 

The Saga will document the birth and rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the legends and pioneers that
rode the wave of change that saw the advent of the phonograph (talking machines), radio (the wireless)
and the "flickers" as they became the "talkies"...from Thomas A. Edison casting Buffalo Bill Cody and
Annie Oakley in his Kinescope Parlor...to today when we cybercast  information on the World Wide
Web...The Internet.  To tie this cybersequel to the world of today we will have some of the great con-
temporary stars of today to tell how the pioneers of the past might have influenced their music today.

As the singing cowboys go out West to Hollywood and ride the new entertainment mediums, taking

their Western music to the big silver screen, then through the road houses and honky tonks, and on

the juke boxes of America... a new form of music is being born.  Country Music and the music of

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboy Band to Patsy Cline,

Buck Owens, George Jones and many great country legends, the new sound being born is on the

way to becoming a great American tradition.  As the musical mavericks of one generation became the

folk heroes of the next generation, we see the evolution of a historical music Saga.

 

Setting the stage for the birth and rise of Rock and Roll...

Willie, producer Benford Standley and

Ramblin Jack talk about music and the road

Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Eric Clapton

PIONEER  TROUBADOURS

Merle Haggard

Coming soon...special
tribute to Willie Nelson