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Country Music (TV Series)

Country Music

2019

Ken Burns

Documentary, Self: Peter Coyote, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash ...

8.0

53

TV Series. Documentary 8 Episodes. 16 Hours. Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America’s music. Country Music features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more than 80 country ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"Good, but inevitably both incomplete and exhausting (...) A wide subject that Burns painstakingly brushes through. But there's not enough paint for that picture."
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"This epic, essential survey (...) is both a history lesson of an American art form and 20th century U.S.A. itself (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"Burns' PBS documentaries are always classy affairs (...) Still, there are greater and lesser works within that filmography, and 'Country Music' (...) distinctly falls into the latter scale."
		Steve Greene IndieWire	"For its running time, Burns effectively steers this wagon across country music’s diverging timelines. It’s only in retrospect that “Country Music” raises questions beyond the answers its historical sweep can offer."
		Carl Wilson Slate	"[Burns] latest documentary has more than three chords, not enough of the truth."

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