The heyday of rockabilly, the career launches of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, the birth of Music Row and influx of new songwriters, and the dominance of the Nashville sound typified by Patsy Cline. īluegrass and honky-tonk emerge Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs pioneer the former, while Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Williams exemplify the latter and Williams becomes country music's biggest star. Roy Acuff and Nashville's increasing role in the genre, singing cowboy acts such as Gene Autry, the western swing of Bob Wills, Dust Bowl refugee acts such as the Maddox Brothers and Rose and Woody Guthrie, the ASCAP boycott, and World War II.
" Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)"Įarly performers Fiddlin' John Carson and Uncle Dave Macon, the genre's roots in folk and Southern gospel, the formation of both WSM and the Grand Ole Opry, and Ralph Peer and the genre's first stars - the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.
Soundtrack Country Music - A Film by Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) The biographical outtakes by various artists are featured on the special features of each of the three disc in the DVD release of the miniseries.
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The 8-disc DVD/Blu-ray release of the documentary series also includes interviews from a large number of outtakes made by Burns during the production of the film. 1 the following week, staying at the top position for eleven consecutive weeks. 6 on the Music Video Sales chart the week of Septemclimbing to No. The film was released through PBS in the United States on Blu-ray disc and DVD on September 17, 2019. 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." Release Home media It has sold 39,100 copies in the United States as of March 2020. 1 on Billboard's Soundtrack Album Sales chart. The five-CD box-set was released on Augbefore the show aired, followed by two-CD, two-LP and digital versions released on September 13. A five-CD soundtrack album of selected highlights of songs featured in the show, Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns, was released.
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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. Ī completely reedited version produced in conjunction with BBC Four, consisting of 9 50-minute episodes, began airing in the UK on November 22, 2019. As a prelude to the premiere, Burns hosted a concert special filmed at the Ryman Auditorium, featuring Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, and Marty Stuart among others, which aired September 8, 2019. The miniseries premiered in the US on September 15, 2019, as a series of eight two-hour episodes. 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. 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. Burns cited his ongoing work on other documentary projects as having affected progress on the series. Burns announced the miniseries in January 2014, with a projected airdate in 2018.
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