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Mike Judge Presents: Tales From The Tour Bus

Hit the road with the craziest stories from some of country music's greatest singers in this comedy series from Mike Judge. more

Hit the road with the craziest stories from some of country music ... More

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Creators: Mike Judge Richard Mullins Dub Cornett

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One of the pioneers of rock'n'roll, Jerry Lee Lewis also happened to be a country music singer who liked to call himself "The Killer." He made a name for himself not just as a magnetic piano-playing singer, but also as an impulsive, gun-wielding wild man, who stoked epic rivalries with the likes of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. The Killer also notoriously married his 13-year-old second cousin, setting off an epic worldwide scandal.

He was a poor boy from a bootleggers' town in the Texas backwoods. She was a cotton-picking Mississippi girl dreaming of stardom in Nashville. Together, George Jones and Tammy Wynette became the first power couple in country music. They were perfect in the public eye, but their tumultuous relationship was punctuated by George's alcohol-fueled escapades and his paranoia over Tammy's romantic past. She tried to keep the marriage from turning toxic, singing 'Stand By Your Man,' her greatest hit, onstage with her husband every night.

By all accounts, Billy Joe Shaver should never have made it in country music. A poor Texas kid from a broken family, he lost three fingers in a sawmill accident before ever writing a song. Despite his physical challenge, Shaver landed in Nashville as a singer/songwriter with hard luck songs about real life. A chance meeting with Waylon Jennings in the back of a peanut trailer led to the breakthrough 'Outlaw' album Honky Tonk Heroes, featuring Waylon singing songs written by Billy Joe. A decade later, Shaver made a name for himself after shooting a man at a roadside tavern for allegedly talking to his soon-to-be ex-wife. The gun play led to a celebrity trial and a shocking verdict. And, of course, Billy Joe wrote a song about it.

A lover of shotguns, gumbo, and traveling to gigs on his private jet, James Brown – nicknamed "Mr. Dynamite"--was renowned for his infectious voice and unbelievable dance moves, earning a reputation as the hardest-working man in show business. Between his womanizing ways, perfectionist attitude and daredevil style, he built an empire that went far beyond entertaining, often alienating musicians and business partners along the way. With hit singles like "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud," Brown reached new heights within the black community in the tumultuous 1960s, capturing the attention of the FBI along the way.

At the height of his fame, James Brown reigned supreme as the king of funk, the first voice and innovator of a brand new musical genre. Behind the scenes, Brown was a taskmaster, feuding with rivals as well as members of his own band. By the 1980's, the work ethic that propelled him to superstardom began to take its toll. Compromised by his own bad decisions, Brown was eclipsed by a new generation of stars trying to follow in his footsteps. Despite falling off the Billboard charts, the king of funk never lost the showmanship that made him a legend.

One of the biggest characters in funk history, Morris Day was an aspiring drummer who became the embodiment of "cool."  The iconic frontman might have had a different life altogether, if not for his childhood friend, Prince Rogers Nelson. Morris made a Faustian bargain with the future superstar, and the result was Morris Day and the Time. The band skyrocketed to the top with hits like "Jungle Love," but resentment festered and the rivalry between the two singers reached a breaking point. Years later, a reunion show at Prince's Minnesota mansion brought The Time back to the stage, allowing Morris and Prince to make peace before the latter's untimely death.

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Inside ‘Tales From the Tour Bus,’ Mike Judge’s Animated Country-Music History Romp

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When Mike Judge began work on Tales From the Tour Bus , a new country-music docuseries for Cinemax that premieres on September 22nd, he did so with a mission. “I like converting people who don’t like country into going, ‘OK, maybe this is OK,'” he says. So the Silicon Valley , King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head mastermind began collecting the wildest, most hilarious stories about Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette , Jerry Lee Lewis and other hellraisers he could from their friends and family and animating them.

“We’re trying to make it less like a history lesson and trying to find the crazy, funny stories that haven’t always been out there,” Judge says. “A lot of country-music documentary stuff that’s been on TNN and CMT has been very polite. But a lot of the stories I’ve heard are more gnarly than Mötley Crüe stories.”

Judge, who grew up in Albuquerque and developed a love of country after spending time on Navajo reservations with his archeologist father, had entertained the idea of making a George Jones biopic years ago but grew cold on the idea and abandoned it. His interest in country storytelling was rekindled after sharing stories he’d heard about Johnny Paycheck, the diminutive Charles Manson lookalike who sang “Take This Job and Shove It,” with his friend Rich Mullins, the bassist for stoner rockers Karma to Burn and a producer on the series. “Rich was saying none of these stories are on the Internet, and maybe it would be a good idea to do a documentary,” Judge says. “I said, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ and he didn’t give up.”

Mullins tracked down the Adams brothers, a trio of musicians who’d backed up both Jones and Paycheck, and conducted hilarious interviews with them, convincing Judge to do the show. “I thought, ‘Maybe we’ll do it the way PBS did with jazz and blues, where we did mini documentaries about country singers,” Judge says, also pointing to the Ginger Baker documentary Beware of Mr. Baker and a cartoon mini-doc about Prince and Questlove as inspirations.

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Although only two of his subjects are living (Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Joe Shaver), Judge found enough bandmates and past associates (including Lewis’s cousin/former underage bride) who were willing to share compelling tales to make the series work. “The Adams brothers helped me find the tone for the show,” he says. “When Gary is talking about Johnny Paycheck shouting, ‘I’ll be out in two weeks,’ as he’s being hauled off to jail for however many years, t hat was the tone.” Judge laughs. “These guys are just ornery as hell and ballbusters. I find people who are sort of half-genius, half-dumbass to be my favorite people.”

Many of the stories, such as the time Jerry Lee Lewis crashed his car through the gates of Graceland to see Elvis, lend themselves naturally to a cartoon look but Judge’s team animated nearly all of the series, including the interviews. Originally, he’d set out to make a more traditional documentary, but between Cinemax asking for more animation and a series of interviews that were poorly shot by former producers on the show, he decided to illustrate the interviews as well. “We were stuck with it but I liked the way the interviews looked so it worked out,” he says.

Now that the first season is done, he’s considering expanding Tales From the Tour Bus to tackle hip-hop and heavy metal in the future. “I think the next one would be the beginning of gangster rap,” says Judge, a friend of the Geto Boys. “Seeing the N.W.A movie, which was great, I know that there’s a lot of other amazing stories that I’ve heard firsthand that I think are really fascinating. I would love to do that next.”

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