America's Music: The Roots of Country (1996)

Directed by

Tom Neff

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series traces the origins and development of American country music. It covers many styles that contributed to the genre, from old-time and Cajun to rockabilly and honky-tonk. Kris Kristofferson narrates the story.

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What happens

America's Music: The Roots of Country is a 1996 three-part, six episode documentary about the history of American country music directed by Tom Neff and Jerry Aronson and written by Neff and Robert K. Oermann. The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound. Country music artist and actor Kris Kristofferson narrates the three-part series. The film was produced by Wild Wolf Productions for TBS Superstation and shown on three consecutive nights beginning on June 2, 1996. It was repeated only once in the Fall of 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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