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Country Music is a documentary miniseries created and directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan that premiered on PBS on September 15, 2019. The eight-part series chronicles the history and prominence of country music in American culture.[5][6]

Burns announced the miniseries in January 2014, with a projected airdate in 2018. Burns cited his ongoing work on other documentary projects as having affected progress on the series.[7][8] Writer Dayton Duncan explained that the goal of the series was to demonstrate that country music "isn't and never was just one type of music. It was always this amalgam of American music and it sprang from a lot of very different roots and then, as it grew, it sprouted many different branches, but they're all connected." Burns filmed a total of 175 hours of interviews with 101 artists and other personalities for the series; some were recorded as early as 2012, and some of the interviewees (such as Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Clark, Ralph Stanley, and Merle Haggard) died over the course of production.[9]

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The TV series presented country music from its earliest stars, such as the Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers, followed by influential singers of the likes of Hank Williams, through to notable acts of the second half of the 20th century such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, finishing in the 1990s. A five-CD soundtrack album of selected highlights of songs featured in the show, Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns, was released. The five-CD box-set was released on August 30, 2019, before the show aired, followed by two-CD, two-LP and digital versions released on September 13.[12] It reached No. 1 on Billboard's Soundtrack Album Sales chart.[13] It has sold 39,100 copies in the United States as of March 2020.[14]

In support of the release of the miniseries, Bank of America produced a video of the song "Wagon Wheel", featuring a collection of musicians from across the United States, with the tag line "Nothing connects the country like country."[15][16]

David Cantwell of The New Yorker wrote, "What the documentary gets right overwhelms the caveats. Burns' chief takeaway from his immersion in the genre is spot on: country music is not, and has never been, static."[33] David Fear of Rolling Stone wrote, "Most of all, this epic, essential survey (which premieres on September 15th) is both a history lesson of an American art form and 20th century U.S.A. itself. Like Burns' 2001 deep dive Jazz, it puts the music's cultural and geographic roots front and center."[34] Will Hermes of Rolling Stone wrote, "The most ambitious, culturally resonant music documentary ever made."[35]

Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote, "Country Music makes it plain that the story of the genre is merely a pocket version of the story of the American musical experiment writ large: Everyone trying on poses and costumes, borrowing wildly at every turn, pointing fingers at others trying similar things, and, as soon as things become complacent, agitating for something new."[36] Ken Tucker of NPR wrote, "In Country Music, Burns goes wide, not deep; it's rare for any musical excerpt to last more than 20 seconds, making it impossible for a singer to make an impression on a viewer unfamiliar with his or her work. This time around, Burns has traveled down Hank Williams' 'Lost Highway' with a busted GPS."[6] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Country Music is a wide subject that Burns painstakingly brushes through. But there's not enough paint for that picture. You're going to see the canvas and the blotches. If you know that going in, it helps."[37]

John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "Ken Burns' eight-part, 16-hour series paints tells an expansive, inclusive story of the narrative-driven music."[38] Caroline Framke of Variety wrote, "The new docuseries is reverent and exhaustive in its attempt to summarize almost a century of American music."[39] Hank Stuever of The Washington Post wrote, "Burns delivers an enlightening, educational and often emotionally stirring account of country's essential evolution (still in progress), from traditional immigrant and church songs heard in the misty mountain hollers to a powerful, Nashville-centric industry that grew to favor predictable hits over authentic origins. I cried three times while making my way through it, moved by the music but also by the common thread of suffering that travels through those who create it."[40]

Burns has been living in rural New Hampshire since 1979, not long after he finished at Hampshire College. In 1991, flush with the success of The Civil War, he bought a rambling Victorian house, which would become the editing hive of his company, Florentine Films. One day this spring, a team there was focused on a six-hour Ernest Hemingway documentary. Lined with posters of musicians and baseball players, with dog beds, imperfect wooden floors, and employees in T-shirts, the building is like off-campus housing tricked out with cutting-edge postproduction gear.

See how what was first called "hillbilly music" reaches new audiences through phonographs and radio, and launches the careers of country music's first big stars, the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.

Watch as Nashville becomes the heart of the country music industry. The genre grows in popularity during the Great Depression and World War II as America falls in love with singing cowboys, Texas Swing and the Grand Ole Opry's Roy Acuff.

Travel to Memphis, where Sun Studios artists Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley usher in the era of rockabilly. Ray Charles crosses America's racial divide by recording a country album.

See how country music reflects a changing America, with Loretta Lynn speaking to women everywhere, Merle Haggard becoming "The Poet of the Common Man" and audiences looking beyond race to embrace Charley Pride.

Learn how country music responds to a nation divided by the Vietnam War, as Army captain turned songwriter Kris Kristofferson sets a new lyrical standard, and artists like Bob Dylan and the Byrds find a recording home in Nashville.

Witness a vibrant era in country music, with Dolly Parton finding mainstream success; Hank Williams, Jr. and Rosanne Cash emerging from their famous fathers' shadows; and Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings launching the "Outlaw" movement.

Learn how "New Traditionalists" like George Strait, Randy Travis and the Judds help country music stay true to its roots. Witness both the rise of superstar Garth Brooks and the return of an aging Johnny Cash to the industry he helped create.

The story begins nearly 100 years ago, with Burns and film writer Dayton Duncan welcoming viewers to an America before the genre's "Big Bang" in Bristol, Tennessee; before the Grand Ole Opry debuted as an insurance-selling barn dance on AM airwaves; and before music of the American South would be marketed as that of "hillbillies."

"Friction is a good way to look at the music," said Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. "Because of this rub between white and black. Country music comes from the South because this is where slavery happened."

"That's America," said renowned old-time musician Rhiannon Giddens. "It came from this black church and ended up as this folk anthem. ... It's not like, 'Oh we can't use that because it's black.' It's like, 'Oh! I love that.' That's the beautiful part of American music."

OK... Take away my "man card" if you wish, but last night's finale really hit home in several ways. Some background:

I was at Keith Whitley's last concert, could have been one more the next night, but it was just a couple of days before he died.

My cousin worked for Mel Tillis as a nanny to his adopted daughter for several years and remained a close friend of his up until his death and attended his memorial at the Ryman.

One of my musical heroes was Johnny Cash who I never got to meet and regret it. My cousin did get to meet him and June at Mel's theater one time and was awed by his presence. I can only imagine.

I met Vince Gill at a Nashville Predators hockey game back in the 90s and found him to be a really great guy.

Sooo... the segment about "Go Rest High on that Mountain" and Vince's breakdown at George Jones' memorial brought me to tears. Then Rosanne Cash told the story of her duet with her father on "I Still Miss Someone" hit home. And then Marty Stuart's comments about his return to the roots of country music along with his photos of Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs on the future of bluegrass, and Vince's comments put me over the edge.

Given that 100 years of Country Music was supposed to be summed up in 16 hours of television time, I feel Burns and crew did a great job. And I'm sure the soundtrack will soon be in my collection.

It's right there on the Bank of America page at the link I posted above. The video appears under the headline: "Wagon Wheel," sung by artists across America, shows us that nothing connects the country like country.

But unlike Episode 6, which spent too much time on Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and extraneous concerns about the Vietnam War, Episode 7 was power packed with important country music information and profiles. Many will complain about who was missed. But Ken Burns did great justice to the artists and moments that did make it. e24fc04721