Filmmaker Ken Burns and his collaborators on PBS’ upcoming “Country Music” documentary series had no inside connections to the country music community when they began work on the …
and his collaborators on PBS’ upcoming “Country Music” documentary series had no inside connections to the country music community when they began work on the eight-part series more than eight years ago. And that’s a good thing, in the view of“Country Music,” a masterful chronicle of what Burns calls “a uniquely American art form,” is set to debut Sept. 15.
“The story is told in such a profound and honest way. It’s light years more compelling that it we could have told it ourselves,” Gill said. “I think we would have lied.”Burns told the crowd that he was not a big fan of country music at the outset of the project but he came to see the story of the musical form that emerged from Appalachia and other regions as “yet another lens on the American experience.
“We didn’t want it to be just a parade of celebrity names or a K-TEL commercial,” Duncan said. “The songs and stories we chose had to stand for all the songs and stories we couldn’t tell.”
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