Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns [Original Soundtrack]

Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns [Original Soundtrack]

by COUNTRY MUSIC: KEN BURNS O.S.T.
Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns [Original Soundtrack]

Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns [Original Soundtrack]

by COUNTRY MUSIC: KEN BURNS O.S.T.

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Overview

The story of country music in America is big and broad enough, with so many stylistic detours and creative offshoots that, when charting its history, it's difficult to decide what to include and what to leave out. This is the challenge faced by the people who compiled the five-disc box set Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns, tied into the documentary series Burns produced and directed for PBS. Do you lean toward the music that was most historically important? The artists that gained the most critical acclaim? The records that moved the most units and charted the highest? Or visionary outliers who made a difference without gaining public recognition? In the case of Country Music, the curators have chosen to go with the first two criteria, putting the spotlight on music and musicians generally acknowledged as part of country's essential canon and highly regarded by historians and critical listeners. As a result, Country Music is a tastefully compiled and packaged set that doesn't offer a great deal in the way of surprises for anyone seriously devoted to country and roots music. There's little in the way of obscurities, and especially as the set moves into the '70s and '80s, there are plenty of very popular artists who are missing in favor of acts more eagerly embraced by the cognoscenti (which means no Kenny Rogers, Alan Jackson, or Garth Brooks, while Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Jeannie Seely make the cut). For these reasons, one can quibble at length about this set as a history lesson. As listening, however, it's a rich and pleasurable experience that's rewarding from first track to last. The first three discs are full of songs that are as vitally important as they are entertaining, and if the final 20-percent takes a somewhat highbrow view of country in the '80s and '90s, what's there represents the genre in a manner that's smart, impassioned, and satisfying. And the unreleased take of Rosanne Cash singing "I Still Miss Someone" at a memorial to her father is beautiful and powerful. At its best, country is a genre that deals with the realities of adult life in a way most pop music does not, speaking of both blessings and tragedies in a manner that's unpretentious and deeply relatable. This is the sort of music that dominates Country Music, and while it can only scratch the surface of the full chronology of the genre, it's a glowing testament to why this stuff matters. For people who think they don't like country music and insist it's nothing more than caterwauling about dogs and trucks, this set is just the sort of music that could change their mind. [Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns was also released in an edited two-disc version that does an admirable job of following the arc of the box set in condensed form and may be a better pick for beginners not wanting so deep a dive.] ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date: 09/13/2019
Label: Legacy / Sony Music
UPC: 0190759604229
Rank: 176722

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Can the Circle Be Unbroken
  2. Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
  3. Fox Chase
  4. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  5. Mountain Dew
  6. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
  7. New San Antonio Rose
  8. Wabash Cannonball
  9. Honky Tonkin'
  10. It's Mighty Dark to Travel
  11. New Mule Skinner Blues
  12. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  13. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
  14. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  15. Crazy Arms
  16. The Long Black Veil
  17. El Paso
  18. Ring of Fire
  19. Crazy
  20. I Can't Stop Loving You
  21. Coal Miner's Daughter
  22. Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'
  23. Hungry Eyes

Disc 2

  1. Stand by Your Man
  2. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
  3. Me and Bobby McGee
  4. Girl From the North Country
  5. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
  6. Jolene
  7. Boulder to Birmingham
  8. Whiskey River [Live]
  9. Pancho and Lefty
  10. He Stopped Loving Her Today
  11. Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
  12. Somebody Should Leave
  13. Why Not Me
  14. Streets of Bakersfield
  15. Where've You Been
  16. Go Rest High on That Mountain
  17. I Still Miss Someone [Live]
  18. Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kitty Wells   Primary Artist
Hank Williams, Jr.   Primary Artist
Tammy Wynette   Primary Artist
Faron Young   Primary Artist
Roger Miller   Primary Artist
Earl Scruggs   Primary Artist
Emmylou Harris   Primary Artist
Gene Autry   Primary Artist
Charley Pride   Primary Artist
Dolly Parton   Primary Artist
DeFord Bailey   Primary Artist
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two   Primary Artist
Johnny Rodriguez   Primary Artist
Sammi Smith   Primary Artist
Lester Flatt   Primary Artist
Rosanne Cash   Primary Artist
Sam McGee   Primary Artist
Martha Carson   Primary Artist
Grandpa Jones & His Grandchildren   Primary Artist
Guy Clark   Primary Artist
Hank Williams   Primary Artist
The Stanley Brothers   Primary Artist
Willie Nelson   Primary Artist
Bradley Kincaid   Primary Artist
Roy Acuff   Primary Artist
Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys   Primary Artist
Marty Robbins   Primary Artist
Brenda Lee   Primary Artist
Buck Owens   Primary Artist
George Strait   Primary Artist
George Jones   Primary Artist
Hank Williams & the Drifting Cowboys   Primary Artist
Rose   Primary Artist
Kris Kristofferson   Primary Artist
Dwight Yoakam   Primary Artist
Eddy Arnold   Primary Artist
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers   Primary Artist
Johnny Cash   Primary Artist
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys   Primary Artist
Uncle Dave Macon   Primary Artist
Lefty Frizzell   Primary Artist
The Maddox Brothers & Rose   Primary Artist
Waylon Jennings   Primary Artist
Vince Gill   Primary Artist
Flatt & Scruggs   Primary Artist
Jeannie C. Riley   Primary Artist
Jeannie Seely   Primary Artist
Loretta Lynn   Primary Artist
James Carson   Primary Artist
Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans   Primary Artist
Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys   Primary Artist
Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers   Primary Artist
The Maddox Brothers   Primary Artist
Haggard Cat   Primary Artist
Ricky Skaggs   Primary Artist
Jimmie Rodgers   Primary Artist
Kathy Mattea   Primary Artist
Randy Travis   Primary Artist
Merle Haggard & the Strangers   Primary Artist
Ray Price   Primary Artist
Reba McEntire   Primary Artist
Merle Haggard   Primary Artist
Patsy Cline   Primary Artist
The Sons of the Pioneers   Primary Artist
Steve Earle   Primary Artist
The Everly Brothers   Primary Artist
Ray Charles   Primary Artist
The Carter Family   Primary Artist
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys   Primary Artist
Foggy Mountain Boys   Primary Artist
Asleep at the Wheel   Primary Artist
The Byrds   Primary Artist
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band   Primary Artist
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys   Primary Artist
Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels   Primary Artist
Townes Van Zandt   Primary Artist
Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers   Primary Artist
Trisha Yearwood   Primary Artist
Coon Creek Girls   Primary Artist
Bob Dylan   Primary Artist
Keith Whitley   Primary Artist
The Judds   Primary Artist
Ken Burns   Director

Technical Credits

Susan Shumaker   Associate Producer
Margaret Shepardson-Legere   Editing
Katy Haas   Associate Producer
Ryan Gifford   Editing
Emily Mosher   Photography
Owen Bradley   Producer
A.P. Carter   Composer
Al Gore   Composer
Tommy Dilbeck   Composer
Tom T. Hall   Composer
Brian Ahern   Producer
George Vaughn   Composer
Guy Clark   Composer
Guy Smith   Composer
Hank Williams   Composer
Harold Shedd   Producer
Willie Nelson   Composer,Producer
Tillman Franks   Composer
Tommy Allsup   Producer
Albert E. Brumley   Composer
Jerry Sullivan   Composer
Roy Cash, Jr.   Composer
Marty Robbins   Composer
Tommy Camfield   Composer
Buck Owens   Composer
George Jones   Composer
Hank Cochran   Composer
William E. McEuen   Producer
Bobby Braddock   Composer
Roy Burris   Composer
Roy Carter   Composer
Tony Brown   Producer
Norman Woodlieff   Composer
J.D. Miller   Composer
Colin Escott   Liner Notes
Curly Putman   Composer
Bascom Lamar Lunsford   Composer
Earl Montgomery   Composer
Felice Bryant   Composer
Eddy Arnold   Composer
Vic Anesini   Mastering
Dayton Duncan   Producer
Johnny Cash   Composer
Jon Ims   Composer
Hylo Brown   Composer
Peggy Sue Wells   Composer
Don Law   Producer
Garth Fundis   Producer
Don Gibson   Composer
Gary Usher   Producer
Emory Gordy Jr.   Producer
W.S. Stevenson   Composer
Johnny Horton   Composer
Waylon Jennings   Composer,Producer
Vince Gill   Composer,Liner Notes
Dickey Lee   Composer
Loretta Lynn   Composer
Julie Dunfey   Producer
Tamara Saviano   Liner Notes
Craig Mellish   Editing
Pam Tubridy Baucom   Producer
Bill C. Malone   Liner Notes
Erik Ewers   Editing
Susanna Steisel   Photography,Associate Producer
Federico Ruiz   Design,Art Direction
Raymond Hall   Composer
Jimmy Rodgers   Composer
Diane Johnson   Composer
Scott Wiseman   Composer
June Carter   Composer
Hal Harton   Composer
Jennifer Kirell   Product Manager
Ricky Skaggs   Producer
Ralph Mooney   Composer
Jerry Kennedy   Producer
Jimmie Rodgers   Composer
Roy Cash   Composer
Jimmy Bowen   Producer
Marty Stuart   Composer
Randy Scruggs   Producer
Merle Haggard   Composer,Producer
Ray Pennington   Producer
Merle Kilgore   Composer
Allen Reynolds   Producer
Patsy Montana   Composer
Paul Buskirk   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Shelby Singleton   Producer
Terry Stafford   Composer
Steve Earle   Composer
Sid Feller   Producer
Sonny Curtis   Composer
Sonny Throckmorton   Composer
Blake Mevis   Producer
Bob Johnston   Producer
Ken Nelson   Producer
Brent Maher   Composer,Producer
Harlan Howard   Composer
Marijohn Wilkin   Composer
Danny Dill   Composer
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band   Producer
Townes Van Zandt   Composer
Paul Overstreet   Composer
Paul Fraser   Composer
Bob Ferguson   Producer
Bob Nolan   Composer
Bill Danoff   Composer
Chips Moman   Producer
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Ken Burns   Producer
Bob Wills   Composer
Billy Sherrill   Composer,Producer
Bill Monroe   Composer
Keith Whitley   Producer
Charlie Poole   Composer
Kyle Lehning   Producer
Boudleaux Bryant   Composer
Chick Rains   Composer
Hank Williams, Jr.   Composer
Larry Clinton   Composer
Chuck Seals   Composer
Jack Clement   Producer
Gretchen Brennison   Product Manager
Tammy Wynette   Composer
Carl Cotner   Arranger
Fred Foster   Composer,Producer
Roger Miller   Composer
Earl Scruggs   Composer
Don Henry   Composer
Emmylou Harris   Composer
Ben Peters   Composer
Frank Jones   Producer
Fred Rose   Composer
Dolly Parton   Composer
Ron Hellard   Composer
Walt Breeland   Composer
Johnny Bush   Composer
Jon Vezner   Composer
Pete Anderson   Producer
Peter Coyote   Narrator
Lester Flatt   Composer
Homer Joy   Composer
Rosanne Cash   Composer
Richard Bennett   Producer
Rodney Crowell   Composer,Producer
Nat Stuckey   Composer
Vaughn Horton   Composer
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