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Country Music - Season 1
The documentary follows the full details of one of the world's most popular music, country music. The series talks about the roots of that deep and intertwined music in stories, poems and songs around the world. The series tries to show the course of that popular music and its popularity around the world and has evolved extensively over the twentieth century.
7 February 1962, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
20 October 1937, Maud, Oklahoma, USA
18 July 1954, Kentucky, USA
January 16, 1943 in Robbinsville, North Carolina, USA
14 August 1941, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
26 May 1949, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
30 September 1958, Philadelphia, Mississippi, USA
March 13, 1929 in West Plains, Missouri, USA
11 December 1944, Lithonia, Georgia, USA
December 10, 1951 in Sabinal, Texas, USA
16 March 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
30 April 1933, Abbott, Texas, USA
2 May 1948, Odessa, Texas, USA
19 January 1946, Sevierville, Tennessee, USA
30 May 1964, Ashland, Kentucky, USA
April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
13 October 1929, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA
March 18, 1934 in Sledge, Mississippi, USA
25 August 1954, Paddington, London, England, UK
28 October 1936, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
21 February 1977, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
9 July 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 October 1956, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA
May 25, 1943 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
19 September 1964, Monticello, Georgia, USA
September 16, 2019
This epic, essential survey is both a history lesson of an American art form and 20th century U.S.A. itself.
September 16, 2019
For its running time, Burns effectively steers this wagon across country music's diverging timelines.
September 16, 2019
You don't have to like country music at all -- in fact, you can despise it -- to be swept away by these gloriously eccentric yarns.
September 16, 2019
Compared to the best of the Burns-PBS collaborations, it drones on in a way that isn't equal to the high expectations and fanfare associated with Burns' epic made-for-public-TV ballads.
September 16, 2019
By far Ken Burns' most entertaining documentary to date.
September 17, 2019
It makes the series' virtues and failings starker that it happens to have debuted in such a contentious year in country. And don't get me wrong: There are virtues to spare.
September 13, 2019
So whatever your thoughts about country music, expect to be immensely entertained, educated and even edified throughout this master course in pickin', grinnin' -- and so very much more.
September 16, 2019
Not a country fan? I can't guarantee Burns will convert you, but if you aren't tapping your feet to one of the many versions of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (the series' unofficial theme song), you may want to check your pulse.
September 17, 2019
Burns and his team are in superb voice as they sing the praises of country music and those legendary talents who popularized it. As with any successful song, they really put their hearts into it.
September 12, 2019
Like the songs that weave through nearly every moment of its runtime, the grace, simplicity, and sincerity of Country Music have a way of heightening its epic underpinnings.
