Overview
The Carter Family, Roy Acuff and the Sons of the Pioneers belong to a select group of the earliest and most successful country recording artists. Pioneers spotlights them all doing such signature songs as Keep On the Sunny Side, Wabash Cannonball and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, alongside the influential blue-grass bands of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. And when Grandpa Jones stomps through Good Old Mountain Dew, you won't be able to sit down.
Director and cast
- Roy Acuff as Self (archive footage)
- Eddy Arnold as Self (archive footage)
- Lester Flatt as Self (archive footage)
- Grandpa Jones as Self (archive footage)
- Bill Monroe as Self (archive footage)
- George Morgan as Self (archive footage)
- Ray Price as Self (archive footage)
- Tex Ritter as Self (archive footage)
- Earl Scruggs as Self (archive footage)
- Carl Smith as Self (archive footage)
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