ANTICIPATION GROWS FOR BURNS’
COUNTRY MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
A road show for the documentary kicked off at the
Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, TN.
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s the excitement continues to build for the film) and country music historians Kris Kristofferson, and Naomi and Wynonna
about acclaimed director Ken Burns’ Colin Escott (covering the 1930s-1950s) and Judd, as well as studio musicians, record
forthcoming documentary “Country Tamara Saviano (covering the 1960s-1990s). producers and others.
Music”, set to air in the US this September, we “Country Music” is the culmination of hear there is a 5-CD deluxe box set edition of eight years of research and production, country music from The Carter Family and
the soundtrack on the way September 13. including interviews with more than 100 Uncle Dave Macon through Hank Williams
Including many rarely seen archival people (40 of whom are members of the and the Stanley Brothers to Keith Whitley
photos, posters, documents and memorabilia Country Music Hall of Fame, and 20 of those and Steve Earle.
related to the artists and recordings in the interviewed have since passed on). Among film, the box includes a note from the film’s those storytellers are historian Bill Malone The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz and The
producers Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, and and a wide range of country artists such as Vietnam War among others. “Country
Julie Dunfrey as well as in-depth essays by Marty Stuart, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Reba Music” will explore the ultimate questions
Bill Malone (the “dean” of country music McEntire, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Willie “What is country music?” and “Where did it
historians and consultant/commentator Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, come from?” We can’t wait.
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The soundtrack features a range of
Burns has previously made films about
Bob Harris Health Scare
eteren broadcaster and presenter of the only nationally broadcast country radio
show - The Country Show with Bob Harris - is taking a few weeks off to recover from
an aortic dissection which he sustained while out walking recently. An avid walker, “For
the past few years I have been walking an average of five miles a day,” he says and puts
the fitness level he has achieved through walking as having “helped save my life.”
Unsure of a date for his return to BBC Radio 2, Harris promises to be back “as soon as
possible.”
Filling in for him on June 13 and 20 was Paul Sexton with other guest presenters
planned for future weeks.
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