Sing Along - Country Music

A Brief History of Country Music

Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies mostly accompanied by string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The most important feature: this kind of music always tells you a story.

Josh Turner - Why Don't We Just Dance?

Joshua Otis Turner (November 20, 1977) is an American country singer and songwriter. In 2003, his debut album's title track, "Long Black Train", was his breakthrough single release. His second album, Your Man (2006), accounted for his first two No. 1 hits, "Your man" and "Would You Go with Me", while 2007's Everything is Fine included a No. 2 hit, "Firecracker". Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit, the four-week No. 1 hit "Why Don't We Just Dance?" and another No. 1 song, "All Over Me". It was followed by Punching Bag (2012), whose lead-off single, "Time Is Love", was the biggest country hit of 2012 according to Billboard Year-End.

Toby Keith - I Should've Been a Cowboy

Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. Keith released his first four studio albums for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned Gold or higher certification and produced several Top Ten singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most-played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated.

Blake Shelton - The More I Drink

Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". Shelton is also known for his role as a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and as a coach on NBC's The Voice. He has been on The Voice since its inception, and, so far, in eight of twenty-one seasons, a member of his team has won.

Literature Masterpieces I - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Later life and spiritualism

Doyle had been interested in spiritualism (the belief in the ability of the living to communicate with the dead) since he rejected his Roman Catholic faith in 1880. In 1915 he experienced a new belief in "psychic religion," or spiritualism, so after the war, he devoted the rest of his life and career to spreading his new faith in a series of works.

Let’s Talk about Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the prototype for the modern mastermind detective. Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet in 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe.

Holmes in Action

Enjoy the magnificent perfomance of Jeremy Brett.