Country Music – A Film by Ken Burns (Eight Episodes) Premieres: September 15 – 18, 2019 Episodes 101-104 @ 8pm ET/PT, repeated @ 10pm ET/PT September 22 – 25, 2019 Episodes 105-108 @ 8pm ET/PT, repeated @ 10pm ET/PT, except 107 @ 10:30pm ET/PT on September 24 Additional plays may include weekend marathons on the weekends
August 9, 2019 Have you ever wondered about the origin of your favorite genre? Burns painstakingly examines the evolution of country music through the work of artists like the Carter Family and Hank Williams. “At the heart of every great country music song is a story,” he says. “As the songwriter Harlan Howard said, ‘It’s
Opinion Country Music as Melting Pot The new documentary series by Ken Burns aims to remind divided Americans of what they have in common. September 9, 2019 By Margaret Renkl Contributing Opinion Writer NASHVILLE — Last spring at the Ryman Auditorium, sitting in the audience for a concert filmed to celebrate the new documentary series by
Filmmaker Ken Burns’ delves into the roots of Country Music. We sat down with him to find out why. WORDS Alan Richard September 2019 Ken Burns is America’s best-known documentary filmmaker. Since 1990, his PBS documentaries have illuminated topics such as jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, baseball, the Civil War and the Roosevelts. But in his latest
Yep, they’re country. Clockwise from top left: Loretta Lynn, Lil Nas X, Jimmie Rodgers and Ray Charles. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images (Lynn); Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images (Lil Nas X); BMI / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images (Rodgers); Express Newspapers / Getty Images (Charles).) By RANDY LEWIS STAFF WRITER SEP. 4, 2019 On
By: Andrew Travers atravers@aspentimes.com Ken Burns spent more than eight years working on his new 16-hour documentary series “Country Music.” He did 101 interviews, collected 1,000 hours of film and some 100,000 photographs, culled down to the 3,300 featured in the film. So it may come as a surprise that America’s most beloved documentarian wasn’t a country
Why do you think this film [Country Music] is important now? Country music as a genre has a very broad appeal. It really reflects American history and American values, and I think the history of country music is the history of our country. Music is the way many of us relate to each other and our
We are proud to present The Better Angels Society’s Annual Report for the 2018-2019 year. It has been a remarkable year of growth for The Better Angels Society, having launched new programs like the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, the Next Generation Angels Awards in partnership with National History Day, and a
Erica Robbie, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Aug 17, 2019 Despite his more than 30 years of telling stories of war and other equally heavy subjects, Ken Burns was not prepared for the level of emotion he would experience while creating his latest documentary: “Country Music.” “We tend to make fun of country music because it
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT | Staff Writer Jul 28, 2019 When Taylor Barton first learned about pioneering 19th-century nurse Clara Barton, she wondered whether their common last name might not be just a coincidence. “I’ve always been interested in the Red Cross and Clara Barton, because when I was younger I thought everyone with the last
