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Les Leverett was the official staff photographer for The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN.
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Interviewees pick they would send into outer space to represent country music.
How did singing cowboys migrate from cattle drives to the silver screen?
If Ken Burns’ Country Music inspires you to explore the genre’s roots even further, here are a few upcoming Southern California concerts that feature…
Join host Kathy Mattea to learn more about the making of the epic documentary series devoted to the history of this truly American art form. Features…
After traveling thousands upon thousands of miles the "Country Music" team racked up impressive stats. Here are a few fun factoids about the new show.
In this excerpt from "Country Music: An Illustrated History," meet A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter, a music group who were instrumental to the genre of country music.
An episode guide to “Country Music,” which tells the history of the genre that came to define what we now know as “America’s music.”
Ken Burns talks about how his new documentary "Country Music" explores the genre’s beginnings and diversity.
As the Cold War Space Race fired up the imaginations of young minds in the West, so too did the American occupation of Japan swing open the saloon doors to the Western world.
During the 1950s, this strand of country-western music, featuring drums, electric guitars (especially the California made Fender Guitar) and strains of mariachi music and rock n’ roll, flourished in honky-tonks and dance halls in and around working-class Bakersfield. By the 1960s, this outlaw strand of country had become mainstream
Designed mostly by first-generation immigrants to America, the rhinestone cowboy aesthetic would come to symbolize the best of the Wild West dream — big, bold, brawny and bedazzled.
