jimmy rogers offering some of the opposing views. the carter family, mother may bell is the original american lead guitarist. sarah carter has the original voice of country, the court of keeninghings that roseanne cash says comes from the bedrock foundation of ours. a.p. carter is out collecting those songs with an african-american song collector named leslie riddle, who brings a song from the african-american church when the world's on fire. they drop the lyrics, take the same melody and do little dar inn, pal of mine, one of their big hits. woody guthrie keeps the tune and does this land is your land. i mean you can't make any of this stuff up. and i guarantee, brian, when hollywood hears the merle haggard story, there will be a biopic in the works because this guy escapes from juvenile detention 17 times. he's in san quentin, has a chance to escape, doesn't. the guy who escapes murders a cop, he comes back, gets executed. he hears johnny cash play, and he becomes merle haggard, the poet of the common man, who emmy lieu harris says if you want to know about country music, get a merle haggard album, put it on a track, any track, and you will learn what country music is. >> y