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The Ken Burns Effect: How 'Country Music' Doc Surged Sales for Country Legends
Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris and more all saw substantial jumps in sales and streaming
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Flashback: Garth Brooks Signs Autographs for 23 Straight Hours
Superstar's marathon meet-and-greet at the 1996 Fan Fair is addressed in Ken Burns' 'Country Music' documentary
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Ketch Secor on Ken Burns' 'Country Music,' Why Nashville Needs a Reckoning
"I want to see diversity in the ranks of the music business," says Old Crow Medicine Show's singer, who is featured prominently in Burns' documentary
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Flashback: Jimmie Rodgers Becomes the 'Father of Country Music'
"The Singing Brakeman" sings about what he knows — trains — in a 1929 film
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Ken Burns' 'Country Music': 10 Things We Learned From Week 1
From the godlike popularity of Roy Acuff to how Bob Wills ended up in space, highlights from the first four episodes of the documentary
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Marty Stuart on Making Ken Burns' 'Country Music'
The secret weapon of the documentary series talks about his “fairytale life” in country music, and what Burns gets right that others miss
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'Country Music' Review: Ken Burns' Epic, Essential Look at an American Artform
A 16-hour, eight-episode look at the evolution of a music that went from "hillbilly" to honkytonk to hit parade covers a massive amount of ground
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Ken Burns: Inside the Filmmaker's Epic 'Country Music' Series
Burns and collaborators Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey on making the eight-part series on PBS
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How Ken Burns Connected Every Dot of Country Music's Rich History in New Film
The filmmaker's new documentary is a journey into the nation's rowdy, sentimental, multicultural soul
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See Vince Gill's 'I Will Always Love You' From Ken Burns 'Country Music' Concert
'Country Music: Live at the Ryman, A Concert Celebrating the Film by Ken Burns' will air on PBS on September 8th
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