Why Marty Stuart is the secret weapon of Ken Burns' 'Country Music'
You visited Burns up in New Hampshire during the making of the film. What was that like?
About a month later I got a letter back from Dayton, and a few weeks after that he was sitting in my office. I said, “Alright, here’s my phone book. Anybody you need is in there. Anything I have access to in my collection, my archive, is yours. I can’t fly a spaceship, but I’m in the deep end of the pool when it comes to country music. So use me.”
I’ll tell you what I did see. I’ve been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years. There’s one on the Carter Family, and Hank Williams. There’s one on Merle [Haggard], one on John [Cash]. What blew me out of the water was that we now have a great Jimmy Rogers documentary inside of Episode One. That was a major, personal victory for me.
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