Road to Nashville Screening at Country Music Hall of Fame

Would you trust a guy named Doodles to scout talent for your big Hollywood country-music movie? That's the "plot" of this 1967 celluloid hayride, as chart-topping knockout Connie Smith introduces comic Doodles Weaver to the cream of country's crop--all the pretext that's needed for performances by Johnny Cash & the Carter Family ("Were You There"), Marty Robbins ("El Paso"), Waylon Jennings ("Anita"), Lefty Frizzell ("I Love You a Thousand Ways"), Porter Wagoner ("Skid Row Joe"), Kitty Wells ("A Woman Half My Age"), and literally dozens more (Bill Anderson, Hank Snow, Faron Young, the Stoneman Family, Dottie West, etc.). There's even footage of hillbilly comics Quinine Gumstump & Buck, doing a number wishfully titled "Cutting Room Floor." Think of it as Hipbilly Jamboree: The Movie, only lighter on the murder ballads. The screening is free.
Sun., Jan. 25, 2 p.m., 2009