Just finished Country Music Ken Burns

[jdc]

He does good work, all of his stuff is worth watching.

Id like to see one on the movie industry, or TV -- but not movies and TV. Or history of New York.

[Speedy]

Country, good.
Western, good.
Country-western, bad.

[$tevie]

I enjoyed it very much. I hope people can now see that country music covers an entire umbrella of sounds. Maybe the people who complain that country is no good any more because it doesn't sound like Hank Williams and Eddie Arnold can see that Hank Williams and Eddie Arnold didn't sound like Vernon Dalhart and Uncle Dave Macon. And Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins didn't sound like Bob Wills and Bill Monroe. And Dolly Parton didn't sound like Maybelle Carter. And so on. Its popularity ebbs and flows but the great ones always get rediscovered over and over. The montage at the end showed there's room for everybody in Nashville and that's why the show was so wonderful.

[Wags]

Ammo wrote:
... I don’t know how long it will be available to stream...

Pretty much forever if you become a sustaining member of PBS. $5 a month, best streaming deal out there, IMHO.

[hal]

I'm streaming in 1080p from PBS.com for free - at least I get SOMETHING from this damned gov't!

What a wonderful show! Just started. I LOVE Burns' way of telling american history through docs centered on specific american stories - baseball, the national parks, jazz, the West and now Country Music. What a fantastic body of work!