The eight-part, 16-hour documentary begins on PBS September 15.
In September, Burns and his long-time collaborators-including writer and producer Dayton Duncan and producer Julie Dunfey-will premier Country Music, a wide-ranging look at a truly American style of music that got a spark in Bristol, Tennessee, a region where southern Appalachian residents had long been composing and sharing songs of struggle, heartbreak and faith.Įverything represented in modern country music pays homage to what came out of the hardscrabble lives of Southern Appalachian balladeers, Burns said earlier this spring when he, Duncan and Dunfey visited The Birthplace of Country Music Museum, kicking off a 30-city bus tour “to spark conversation about this unique American art form and the people who created it.” Few can better tell that multifaceted tale than Burns, whose palette birthed the seminal documentary The Civil War in 1990, as well as introspective studies of Baseball, Jazz, The War, The National Parks, Prohibition, The Roosevelts, and The Vietnam War.
For documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the stories he chooses to illuminate help explain the history of America.
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