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The series, directed by Ken Burns, features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more than 80 country music artists. No-one has told the story this way before.

It was while playing on a semi-pro team in Montana – the East Helena Smelterites – that Charley, blessed with a deep, resonant voice and a long-time love of country music, began performing in ...

The second of six sons, Wynton was born into a musical family: his father Ellis was a pianist and music teacher and three of his brothers – Branford, Jason, and Delfeayo – are jazz musicians.

Country Music is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington, DC, and is directed by Ken Burns. Funding for Country Music was provided by Bank of America, the Annenberg Foundation, the ...

One of country music’s most prolific and successful songwriters, Bobby Braddock has had No. 1 hits spanning five decades of Billboard’s country charts. As a young boy in rural central Florida ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

Disc jockey and writer Eddie Stubbs has arguably the most recognizable voice in country music radio. Since 1995, his low, comforting bass has been put to good use on Nashville’s country music ...

Charlie McCoy was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. His autobiography, Fifty Cents and a Boxtop, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2017.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell grew up in the Houston area, steeped in country music. His parents met at a Roy Acuff concert and Crowell was only two years old when his father insisted on taking ...

Country music is not—and never was—one style of music. It has always been a mixture of many styles, springing from many roots and sprouting many new branches to create a complicated chorus of ...