Country Music (2019)
Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America’s music.
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Seasons
Season 1
Episodes season 0
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0x1
Pbs previews: country music
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0x2
Country music: live at the ryman concert
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0x3
Ketch secor: old fiddle and banjo tunes
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0x4
Rhiannon giddens: the mix in country music
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0x5
Charlie daniels: the devil and the fiddle
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0x6
The oak ridge boys: "farther along"
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0x7
Old hymns: dwight yoakam and betty johnson
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0x8
Dolly parton: "pretty fair maid"
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0x9
"will the circle be unbroken": country music's national anthem
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0x10
Wynton marsalis: "wildwood flower"
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0x11
Betty johnson: the johnson family singers, 1930
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0x12
Ralph stanley: the first song mother taught me
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0x13
Hank williams: the songwriter and performer
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0x14
Randy scruggs: the carter scratch, travis picking, doc watson
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0x15
John mceuen: earl scruggs' banjo style
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0x16
Don maddox: the most colorful hillbilly band in the world
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0x17
Elvis: the hillbilly cat
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0x18
Patsy cline: tough edges, big heart
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0x19
Mel tillis: learning to talk through singing
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0x20
Johnny cash: poet performer
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0x21
The bryants and "rocky top"
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0x22
Music row's a-team
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0x23
The genius of roger miller
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0x24
Jeannie seely: women in country music
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0x25
Loretta lynn on songwriting
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0x26
The artistry of merle haggard
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0x27
"help me" written by larry gatlin
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0x28
"ruby, don't take your love to town" written by mel tillis
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0x29
Kris kristofferson's first song
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0x30
"old dogs, children and watermelon wine" written by tom t. hall
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0x31
"he stopped loving her today": the story behind the song
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0x32
Dolly parton: the songwriter and celebrity
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0x33
Johnny cash: following the gospel
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0x34
Hank williams, jr.: on his own
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0x35
Marty stuart's mandolin
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0x36
Johnny cash: his legacy
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0x37
Marty stuart: back to the source
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0x38
The song into outer space
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0x39
Country music — behind the scenes
Episodes season 1
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1x1
The rub (beginnings -1933)
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1x2
Hard times (1933 -1945)
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1x3
The hillbilly shakespeare (1945 -1953)
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1x4
I can't stop loving you (1953 -1963)
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1x5
The sons and daughters of america (1964 -1968)
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1x6
Will the circle be unbroken? (1968 -1972)
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1x7
Are you sure hank done it this way? (1973 -1983)
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1x8
Don't get above your raisin (1984 -1996)
