Ken Burns' 'Country Music' airs on WVIZ/PBS from September 15 through September 25.New. Narrated by: Brian Corrigan, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns. The eight-part series chronicles the history and prominence of country music in American culture. 'I think that's another thing that's part of 'Country Music,' at least in the 20th Century history of it, is so many came from those circumstances and never forgot it,' he said. 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. 'You can't make stuff like that up,' Duncan said.Īlong with stories like these, the series is also full of people who rose out of poverty thanks to their music. Country music is America’s musicwhich is to say, music from every culture and ethnicity. Now, alongside producer Julie Dunfey and writer/producer Dayton Duncan, Burns has set his sights on the origins and impact of country music, a thoroughly American genre with an extremely. He immediately drove off to Texas to find her and the two were soon married. one big one is when Sara Carter decides to sing a song to her boyfriend in California,' he said.Ĭarter sang the song, 'I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes,' live over the radio airwaves of XERA on the Mexico-Texas border dedicating it to her long-lost lover, Coy Bayes.īayes heard the song and her dedication in California, where his mother had been hiding Sara's letters to him.

Storytelling is at the heart of most every country song, which was a goldmine for a writer like Duncan to work with on this documentary series. 'So that's just inexpressable grief. And yet when you get to the chorus: 'There's a better world awaitin' in the sky lord, in the sky.' Everybody claps and sings on that,' he said. Their famous song, 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken,' tells the sad but universal story of a loved one's funeral. The Carter Family: AP, Maybelle and Sara Carter c. Download Ebooks Country Music: An Illustrated History PDF by Dayton Duncan is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading or downloading ebook.

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