According to a 1948 Life magazine article, "if [Gene's records] were all shipped to one place, [they] would make up a freight train solid with Western songs and be more than a mile long."

Album Information

Country Music - A Film by Ken Burns
The Soundtrack (2-CD Set)

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To Be Released:
September 13, 2019

Label:
Legacy Recordings

Country Music, the eight-part, 16-hour film by Ken Burns, chronicles the creation of a truly American genre of music through the songs and stories of its greatest trailblazers. Country Music – A Film By Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) includes more than 40 timeless classics as heard in the film on 2 CDs, including songs by The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and many more.

Track Listing

Disc One
Disc Two

Disc One

Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)
The Carter Family
Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
Jimmie Rodgers
Fox Chase
DeFord Bailey
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blues
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Mountain Dew
Grandpa Jones and His Granchildren
I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers
New San Antonio Rose
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Wabash Cannon Ball
Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
Honky Tonkin'
Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
It's Mighty Dark to Travel
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
New Mule Skinner Blues
Maddox Brothers and Rose
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Kitty Wells
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
Crazy Arms
Ray Price
The Long Black Veil
Lefty Frizzell
El Paso
Marty Robbins
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
Crazy
Patsy Cline
I Can't Stop Loving You
Ray Charles
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'
Charley Pride
Hungry Eyes
Merle Haggard and the Strangers

Disc Two

Stand by Your Man
Tammy Wynette
You Ain't Going Nowhere
The Byrds
Me and Bobby McGee
Kris Kristofferson
Girl from the North Country
Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Waylon Jennings
Jolene
Dolly Parton
Boulder to Birmingham
Emmylou Harris
Whiskey River
Willie Nelson
Pancho and Lefty
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones
Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
Ricky Skaggs
Somebody Should Leave
Reba McEntire
Why Not Me
The Judds (Wynonna and Naomi)
Streets of Bakersfield
Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens
Where've You Been
Kathy Mattea
Go Rest High on That Mountain
Vince Gill
I Still Miss Someone
Rosanne Cash
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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