Explore the Roots & Branches of Country Music | Country Music | Ken Burns

Well, you know, the way I define country music is, first of all, I call it “Country Western” music. It’s the music of America, for sure. And it’s an amalgam. It’s everything. Some people wanted to say that it was “America’s only original pure music.” Well, no, it’s blues. It’s jazz. It’s hillbilly. It’s everything about the immigrant experience brought to America and Americanized. – Ray Benson

Asleep at the Wheel, Briarcliff, Texas, 1979.
Credit: Photograph by Scott Newton, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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