Tyler’s podcast is so well done and researched. I listend to all of the episodes back to back in about a week. I know it may be a while for another season but I hope we get another!

He’s only considered a one hit wonder as a crossover artist. He’s had numerous country chart hits in 3 decades. I think that qualifies him as having some sort of elevated status in the industry.

Oh?

Like the article author said, no documentary, even at 16 hours, is going to be able to adequately cover everything and Burns had to have a cutoff point. Dude’s been working on this for years and there’s a century of history in this genre to cover. This doc isn’t going to please everybody. I wouldn’t call it a “failure”.

Anybody who doesn’t agree that “Old Town Road” is up there with “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” or that Billy Ray shouldn’t be up on the Mount Rushmore of country music will be downvoted to oblivion here. This whole “Old Town Road” thing has been one big gaslighting mind fuck since day one.

Billy*

How about mentioning Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby and the rest of the Highwomen supergroup, and even Kasey Musgraves being the 2019 Grammy Award winning artist–that is, if and only if an additional hour or two is added down the road (more than likely, it would appear on DVD and Blu-Ray.)

And just FYI–the Baseball series added a Tenth Inning to focus on the steroid issues of the 1990’s to the Boston Red Sox ending their 86 year curse winning it all in 2004.

Sorry, 16 hours a day.

I can’t speak for guiriguiri, but I myself do spend 1 hours a day useless. 8 sleeping + 8 at work.

However, I will go to my grave never understanding how or why anybody ever considered “Old Town Road” to be a country song, and I’m highly doubtful this song has steered anybody toward country music. Like, “damn, I really like ‘Old Town Road’, let me dive right into this stack of George Strait albums.” Never happened. Not gonna happen.

We all know that Taiwanese computer-animated reenactments are the way to go.

Ken?

Yeah, don’t let actually watching/reading/listening to something get in the way of your hot take. I’m thinking you spend 16 hours every day useless.

I’ll take Ken Burns zooming in on a photo anyday over History Channel style ‘documentaries’ featuring off-off Broadway level actors doing reenactments.

You’re an idiot.

When I first heard about it, I was sure it would either take the safe route and end decades ago and or end with the triumph of GOLDEN HOUR and “Old Town Road” (which have raised interest in country music among audiences who never cared much about it.) Given that Ken “how many times can I zoom into a photo?” Burns directed it, no surprise that it went the former direction.

and the podcast!

YFBS is more rant than research. At least part of the whole C&R thing is that you can donate or buy research materials for him. I haven’t listened to everything he has up, but I thought the 3-hours worth of Buck Owens’ story was pretty damn good.

He’s a lot easier to stomach on C&R than his other podcast Your Favorite Band Sucks. He’s so obnoxious on that one.

Well, howdy pardner!

Admittedly a pretty big barrier to entry.

Came down here to say the same thing. It’s a really great podcast once you settle into Tyler Mahan Coe’s tone and storytelling cadence.