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David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a house band led by Paul Shaffer. Among the show's most-famous segments are the Top Ten List and Stupid Pet Tricks, the latter of which subsequently led to an additional recurring segment called Stupid Human Tricks.
Now the longest-running music series in American television history, ACL showcases popular music legends and innovators from every genre.
Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.
This is the story of a troubadour's journey in the last years of the twentieth century. Jerry Jeff Walker's music has led him from the nation's biggest arenas to hundred-year old honky-tonks; from upstate New York to the beaches of Key West and the hustling sidewalks of New Orleans to the solace of the Texas Hill Country - and for beyond. He's been a cog in the wheel of the recording industry's star-making machinery and an involuntary pioneer on the frontier of artistic independence. He wrote one of the biggest mainstream hits of all time and still managed to help jump start a maverick musical movement.
Journey to Luckenbach, Texas, the place "where everybody's somebody." The documentary film Back to the Basics traces the history of Luckenbach from a one horse crossroads to its iconic status as a cultural mecca with its unique country flavor and distinct musical legacy.
"Ware the Buffalo Roams" invites you on a journey through the life and music of Terry Ware, a homegrown talent from Woodward, Oklahoma. Shot by the talented students of Rose State College during a summer internship under the guidance of Professors John Marshall and Tony Sellars, this documentary delves deep into the legacy of a man whose music is as diverse as the Oklahoma skies. In the 1970s, Terry Ware began his musical journey by performing at high school dances in his hometown of Woodward, Oklahoma. He rose to national acclaim with appearances on "The David Letterman Show," the 2005 Grammys, and countless other stages nationwide.
