Sweet Country Music

As I write this, I seem to be the first one submitting a review to IMDB. This surprises me, as this film did have a VHS release from New World Video under the alternate title of SWEET COUNTRY ROAD.

In real life, star Buddy Knox was a one-hit-wonder rock performer with the song, "Party Doll". Many years later, he appeared in this movie playing Buddy Sutton (more or less himself), a rock star who wants to cross over into country music, but has trouble getting anyone to take him seriously in this genre...

.....and that's the paper thin plot. Put together, the story sequences would add up to maybe 15 or 20 minutes of screen time. The rest of this 95-minute film is all concert footage of country stars like Johnny Paycheck performing. On and on, concert footage, with brief interludes of "plot" edited in here and there. Good grief!

It seems this film may have been partially financed by the producers of the "Hee Haw" tv series, as several of the Hee Haw stars appear on screen as themselves (including Gordie Tapp and Roni Stoneman), and there are dialogue references to Hee Haw.

Recommended only to those who may want to see some of the country concert footage. If you are looking for a movie with a story, this isn't it---it is only pretending to be.