Elvis is rising, a dreamer's defying his dad, and 1950s Tennessee never sounded so rebellious.
Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestCousin Geneva leaves her husband and comes to Nashville to get Boone to help her launch a music career. Her first appearance does not go very well, but Boone discovers she has a talent for sewing. Geneva's husband joins her as she begins her new career as a seamstress.
Boone Sawyer, who aspires to a career in rock and roll music, despite the advice of his stern father, Merit Sawyer, who wants Boone to join him in the automobile repair business. The setting of the series is Tennessee in the early 1950s, when great changes began to occur in popular music, with the rise of Elvis Presley.
Writing
Earl Hamner Jr.'s signature warmth with sharper generational bite than The Waltons.
Production
Authentic 1950s Tennessee atmosphere—costumes and sets transport you completely.
Acting
Barry Corbin's stern patriarch steals every scene he's in.
Creator
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Earl Hamner Jr. created this as a spiritual companion to The Waltons, set just one state over and one decade later.
The series premiered months after Elvis died, making its 1950s rock rebellion theme accidentally elegiac.
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