What perspective does country music offer on American history? So I know the power of song to get you through and bring you closer together.” Then later I sang some to the woman who became my wife. I’ve written country songs myself, originally for my own therapy. I grew up listening to it, fell away from it a little bit when I was in my college years, then came back to it. We’ve been close, then were separated for a while, then got back together. “My relationship with country music would make a good country music song. We spoke to Dayton Duncan, Country Music’s writer and producer and a frequent Burns collaborator, about the film and his own relationship to country music. The newest sweeping survey of American history from Ken Burns and his team is Country Music, an eight-part series that chronicles the rise of the genre from its widespread roots through its explosion into the mainstream and development into a big business over the course of the twentieth century. You can stream a preview, or watch a concert celebrating the film on Sunday, September 8 at 7:00 pm. Ken Burns’s eight-part Country Music begins airing Sunday, September 15 at 8:00 pm and will be available to stream then.
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