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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
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.”
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.
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…
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…
Ken Burns talks about how his new documentary "Country Music" explores the genre’s beginnings and diversity.
As a subgenre within L.A.’s better-publicized pop industry, the country and Americana community is characterized by a noteworthy level of mutual support and camaraderie. They congregate in a spiderweb of unassuming clubs around the city; here’s where you can get a feel for country in L.A.
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Larry Gatlin, Rosanne Cash, and Paul Simon discuss "I Walk The Line"
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Holly Williams, Naomi Judd, and Dolly Parton on "Coat of Many Colors."
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Dwight Yoakam and Marty Stuart discuss “Mama’s Hungry's Eyes"
