Ken Burns’ new eight-part, 16-hour documentary about nation music has gotten a premiere date: The first episode of Country Music airs on Sunday, September 15 at eight p.m. Eastern on PBS. The subsequent three episodes air from Monday, September 16 by Wednesday, September 18. The closing 4 episodes air from Sunday, September 22 by Wednesday, September 25. According to a press launch:
Country Music explores essential questions—“What is country music?” and “Where did it come from?”—whereas specializing in the biographies of the fascinating trailblazers who created and formed it — from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Garth Brooks, and lots of extra—in addition to the instances by which they lived.
Back in 2001, Ken Burns launched a 19-hour documentary about jazz. In 2017, his Vietnam War documentary aired on PBS; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored the series.
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