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Country music, a film by Ken Burns : a story of America, one song at a time : the soundtrack.

Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CMSK451 | Legacy RecordingsPublisher: [New York, NY] : Legacy Recordings, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2019Edition: [Deluxe edition]Description: 5 audio discs (5 hr., 19 min., 32 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Other title:
  • Country music : the soundtrack
  • Country music : a story of America, one song at a time
Uniform titles:
  • Music for motion picture (work): Country music (Motion picture : 2019)
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Contents:
Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower (The Carter Family) -- In the jailhouse now (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Comin' round the mountain (Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee) -- Pretty Polly (The Coon Creek Girls) -- T.B. blues (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Mountain dew (Grandpa Jones and his grandchildren) -- Home on the range (Gene Autry) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers) -- Tumbling tumbleweeds (Sons of the Pioneers) -- Keep on the sunny side/ I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Carter Family) -- The great speckled bird (Roy Acuff) -- Whoa babe (Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys) -- Wabash cannon ball (Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys) -- Mule skinner blues (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) --
Disc two. Honky tonkin' (Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys) -- It's mighty dark to travel (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) -- New mule skinner blues (Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- I'll hold you in my heart (till I can hold you in my arms) (Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Playboys) -- Foggy mountain breakdown (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys) -- Molly and Tenbrook (The Stanley Brothers) -- Lovesick blues (Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys) -- I saw the light (Hank Williams) -- Hey, good lookin' (Hank Williams) -- It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels (Kitty Wells) -- I'm so lonesome I could cry (Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys) -- Jambalaya (on the bayou) (Little Brenda Lee) -- New step it up and go (Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- I walk the line (Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) -- Crazy arms (Ray Price) -- Bye, bye love (The Everly Brothers) -- The long black veil (Lefty Frizzell) -- El Paso (Marty Robbins) -- Night life (Ray Price) -- Hello walls (Faron Young) -- I fall to pieces (Patsy Cline) -- Ring of fire (Johnny Cash) -- Crazy (Patsy Cline) -- I can't stop loving you (Ray Charles) --
Disc three. Dang me (Roger Miller) -- I've got a tiger by the tail (Buck Owens) -- Don't come home a' drinkin' (with lovin' on your mind) (Loretta Lynn) -- Coal miner's daughter (Loretta Lynn) -- Kiss an angel good mornin' (Charley Pride) -- Hungry eyes (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Mama tried (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Harper Valley P.T.A. (Jeannie C. Riley) -- Don't touch me (Jeannie Seely) -- Folsom Prison blues (Johnny Cash) -- Stand by your man (Tammy Wynette) -- She thinks I still care (George Jones) -- You ain't going nowhere (The Byrds) -- Me and Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson) -- Help me make it through the night (Sammi Smith) -- Sunday morning coming down (Kris Kristofferson) -- Okie from Muskogee (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Man in black (Johnny Cash) -- Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash) -- Grand Ole Opry song (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Will the circle be unbroken (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) --
Disc four. Are you sure Hank done it this way (Waylon Jennings) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Dolly Parton) -- Jolene (Dolly Parton) -- I will always love you (Dolly Parton) -- We're gonna hold on (George Jones and Tammy Wynette) -- Texas cookin' (Guy Clark) -- If I needed you (Townes Van Zandt) -- I can't stop loving you (Johnny Rodriguez) -- I've been a long time leaving (but I'll be a long time gone) (Waylon Jennings) -- Love hurts (live) (Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels) -- Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris) -- Bluebird wine (Emmylou Harris) -- Whiskey River (Willie Nelson) -- Miles and miles of Texas (Asleep at the Wheel) -- Blue eyes crying in the rain (Willie Nelson) -- Good hearted woman (Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson) -- Family tradition (Hank Williams, Jr.) -- Seven year ache (Rosanne Cash) -- Pancho and Lefty (Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard) -- He stopped loving her today (George Jones) --
Disc five. Don't get above your raisin' (Ricky Skaggs) -- On the road again (Willie Nelson) -- Amarillo by morning (George Strait) -- Somebody should leave (Reba McEntire) -- Diggin' up bones (Randy Travis) -- Why not me (The Judds (Wynonna and Naomi)) -- Honky tonk man (Dwight Yoakam) -- Streets of Bakersfield (Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens) -- Where've you been (Kathy Mattea) -- I'm no stranger to the rain (Keith Whitley) -- Go rest high on that mountain (Vince Gill) -- Guitar town (Steve Earle) -- She's in love with the boy (Trisha Yearwood) -- Tennessee flat top box (Rosanne Cash) -- Get up John (Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers) -- Uncle Pen (Ricky Skaggs) -- I still miss someone (Rosanne Cash) -- Will the circle be unbroken (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
Various performers.
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Adult CD Adult CD Dr. James Carlson Library CD SOUNDTRACK Country music, a film by Ken Burns Available 33111009426525
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 782.4216 C855 Available 33111009426699
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

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Various performers.

Compact discs.

Liner notes (68 pages : portraits) by Bill C. Malone, Colin Escott and Tamara Saviano with historical information, archival photos, documents and memorabilia inserted in container.

Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower (The Carter Family) -- In the jailhouse now (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Comin' round the mountain (Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee) -- Pretty Polly (The Coon Creek Girls) -- T.B. blues (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Mountain dew (Grandpa Jones and his grandchildren) -- Home on the range (Gene Autry) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers) -- Tumbling tumbleweeds (Sons of the Pioneers) -- Keep on the sunny side/ I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Carter Family) -- The great speckled bird (Roy Acuff) -- Whoa babe (Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys) -- Wabash cannon ball (Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys) -- Mule skinner blues (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) --

Disc two. Honky tonkin' (Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys) -- It's mighty dark to travel (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) -- New mule skinner blues (Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- I'll hold you in my heart (till I can hold you in my arms) (Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Playboys) -- Foggy mountain breakdown (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys) -- Molly and Tenbrook (The Stanley Brothers) -- Lovesick blues (Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys) -- I saw the light (Hank Williams) -- Hey, good lookin' (Hank Williams) -- It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels (Kitty Wells) -- I'm so lonesome I could cry (Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys) -- Jambalaya (on the bayou) (Little Brenda Lee) -- New step it up and go (Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- I walk the line (Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) -- Crazy arms (Ray Price) -- Bye, bye love (The Everly Brothers) -- The long black veil (Lefty Frizzell) -- El Paso (Marty Robbins) -- Night life (Ray Price) -- Hello walls (Faron Young) -- I fall to pieces (Patsy Cline) -- Ring of fire (Johnny Cash) -- Crazy (Patsy Cline) -- I can't stop loving you (Ray Charles) --

Disc three. Dang me (Roger Miller) -- I've got a tiger by the tail (Buck Owens) -- Don't come home a' drinkin' (with lovin' on your mind) (Loretta Lynn) -- Coal miner's daughter (Loretta Lynn) -- Kiss an angel good mornin' (Charley Pride) -- Hungry eyes (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Mama tried (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Harper Valley P.T.A. (Jeannie C. Riley) -- Don't touch me (Jeannie Seely) -- Folsom Prison blues (Johnny Cash) -- Stand by your man (Tammy Wynette) -- She thinks I still care (George Jones) -- You ain't going nowhere (The Byrds) -- Me and Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson) -- Help me make it through the night (Sammi Smith) -- Sunday morning coming down (Kris Kristofferson) -- Okie from Muskogee (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Man in black (Johnny Cash) -- Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash) -- Grand Ole Opry song (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Will the circle be unbroken (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) --

Disc four. Are you sure Hank done it this way (Waylon Jennings) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Dolly Parton) -- Jolene (Dolly Parton) -- I will always love you (Dolly Parton) -- We're gonna hold on (George Jones and Tammy Wynette) -- Texas cookin' (Guy Clark) -- If I needed you (Townes Van Zandt) -- I can't stop loving you (Johnny Rodriguez) -- I've been a long time leaving (but I'll be a long time gone) (Waylon Jennings) -- Love hurts (live) (Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels) -- Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris) -- Bluebird wine (Emmylou Harris) -- Whiskey River (Willie Nelson) -- Miles and miles of Texas (Asleep at the Wheel) -- Blue eyes crying in the rain (Willie Nelson) -- Good hearted woman (Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson) -- Family tradition (Hank Williams, Jr.) -- Seven year ache (Rosanne Cash) -- Pancho and Lefty (Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard) -- He stopped loving her today (George Jones) --

Disc five. Don't get above your raisin' (Ricky Skaggs) -- On the road again (Willie Nelson) -- Amarillo by morning (George Strait) -- Somebody should leave (Reba McEntire) -- Diggin' up bones (Randy Travis) -- Why not me (The Judds (Wynonna and Naomi)) -- Honky tonk man (Dwight Yoakam) -- Streets of Bakersfield (Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens) -- Where've you been (Kathy Mattea) -- I'm no stranger to the rain (Keith Whitley) -- Go rest high on that mountain (Vince Gill) -- Guitar town (Steve Earle) -- She's in love with the boy (Trisha Yearwood) -- Tennessee flat top box (Rosanne Cash) -- Get up John (Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers) -- Uncle Pen (Ricky Skaggs) -- I still miss someone (Rosanne Cash) -- Will the circle be unbroken (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).

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