Otis Redding
The Science Channel is running a How It’s Made marathon Sunday 9/6, which includes electric guitars (8am) and guitar amplifiers (9:30am). They’re also showing vinyl records (7am), drum heads (9am), drum shells & drums (10am), steel drums (12:30), carbon fibre cellos (1:30pm), and violins (5pm).
PBS is showing Austin City Limits “Tribute to Bluesman Jimmy Reed” – James Cotton, Delbert McClinton, Lou Ann Barton and others join guitarist Jimmie Vaughan to pay tribute to composer Jimmy Reed (check local listings).
Ovation is airing several episodes of the show Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs related to music, including the Invention of Musical Notation (8am & 11am Wed), Development of Equal Temperament (10am & 1pm Wed), History of the Piano (10am & 1pm Thu), & Development of Instruments to Record Sound (10am & 1pm Fri).
VH1 Classic is airing Rock City – Performances and interviews from London between 1964 and 1973; artists include the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens, Jimi Hendrix and Ike and Tina Turner (11am & 11pm Thu).
Speaking of Otis Redding (whose birthday is coming up on Sep 9), one of the PBS affiliates here is showing Sweet Soul: Stax/Volt Revue — Live in Norway 1967 – Live performance footage from the Stax/Volt Revue’s European tour features Otis Redding, Sam and Dave and Booker T. and the MG’s (check local listings).
Ovation is showing Eric Clapton’s bio Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads (3pm & 6pm Thu).
Biography features Ray Charles (10am & 4pm Thu, 4am Fri), Stevie Wonder (9pm Thu & 1am Fri), and Aretha Franklin (7am Sun).
VH1 Classic is showing Classic in Concert: Paul McCartney: St. Petersburg Live (11am & 11pm Fri) and John Lennon: Live in NYC ’72 (11am & 11pm Sat, 5pm Sun). They’re also airing The Making of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (9pm Fri, 6pm Sat, 8pm Sun).
A local PBS station is airing The Rockabilly Legends: They Called It Rockabilly Long Before They Called It Rock and Roll – The musical genre of rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll begins in Depression Era cotton fields of Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas (check local listings).
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