The Story of Country Music Is Too Vast for Even Ken Burns’s Fine 16-Hour Documentary to Tell 🎶 🎵 🎥 📺 🇺🇸 🤠

The story of country music is the story of America, of a young nation settling into the technologies that would come to define it, and the ups and downs of the people making a living there in the thick of it. The music trickled down from mountain folk carrying culture from their ancestral lands into the vast expanse of the new country. It rose up like a prayer from the slaves of the field tarrying thanklessly in a political system that traded them like chattel. It jolted cross-country on the backs of trains and took root in cities, where it nurtured business and flowed deeper into the country via radio towers. It told stories that hadn’t been heard; it gave voice to the voiceless.