It should be noted that You’re Lookin’ at Country, last Thursday’s program at Northwest Film Forum, was wonderful. Sirius DJ Dallas Wayne presented clips of live performances from country music’s heyday—basically the ’50s and ’60s. Most of the greats were shown (sadly, Hank Williams was nowhere to be found): Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Buck Owens, young and beardless Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Roger Miller, Loretta Lynn, Porter Wagoner, Little Jimmy Dickens, Patsy Cline, and more, including Pete Drake playing a steel guitar with a talk box. I was hoping there’d be a performance by oft-forgotten Faron Young, and indeed there was, his hit “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young.” Hello Handsome…

I tell ya, I could’ve stayed there all night watching those clips. When you listen primarily to music that was made 20 to 30 years before you were born, you’re really missing out on the live aspect of it. Just getting to see it up on a biggish screen was a real treat. And the anecdotes Wayne told of the performers and performances were priceless. I really hope they do this again sometime. (Suggestions for next time: Conway Twitty, Hank Williams, the Maddox Bros. and Rose, Ray Price.)