Outlaw X
The Strange World of Border Radio
Folks say, back in the 1930s, you could hear the Carter Family on any
barbed wire fence in Texas. You could pick up a senorita signing a
Mexican ballad, or a lonesome cowhand
moaning the prairie blues. Sometimes you heard psychic Rose Dawn, the
patroness of the Order of Maya or old Doc Brinkley talkin’ about s-e-x.
Outlaw X: The Strange World of Border Radio captures on film the rebellious
spirit that
inhabited American airwaves from the 1930s to the 1980s, the internet
of its day, smoking through the ether like a global blast of juke joint
mojo. GUARANTEED.
The Outlaw X transformed American music, advertising, religion, international relations and sex, all for a dollar a holler. Outlaw X: The Strange World of Border Radio is an amazing journey through the past and into the future of American media.
The Director
Trey Fanjoy’s creative vision has been responsible for over 150
major label music videos. Her work can be seen on CMT, VH1 and MTV. Her
work has received multiple CMA, ACM, Billboard and CMT nominations, in
addition to being named CMT’s Director of The Year. In the documentary
filmmaking
arena, Trey wrote and produced the Joe Ely documentary “Riding The
Rails,” which featured Bruce Springsteen and a documentary for the
Frist Center for the Visual Arts on legendary rodeo tailor, Manuel, which
was narrated by
Linda Rondstadt.
Background Story Article Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_blaster
Segment
on “On The Media”
and it’stranscript:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/xerf.html
The Carter Family and Border Radio
Border Radio info toward bottom of page- good quote about “heartland”
Book Preview Online – “Border Radio” by Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
