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Episode Guide EPISODE GUIDE EIGHT EPISODES, BEGINNING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Stream all eight episodes starting Sunday, September 15 with RMPBS Passport. Learn more at rmpbs.org/passport. 15 SUNDAY 22 SUNDAY 25 WEDNESDAY 7:00 Country Music "The Rub (Beginnings -1933)" 7:00 Country Music "The Sons and Daughters 7:00 Country Music "Don't Get Above Your See how what was first called "hillbilly of America (1964 -1968)" See how country Raisin (1984 -1996)" Learn how "New music" reaches new audiences through music reflects a changing America, Traditionalists" like George Strait, Randy phonographs and radio, and launches the with Loretta Lynn speaking to women Travis and the Judds help country music careers of country music's first big stars, the everywhere, Merle Haggard becoming "The stay true to its roots.Witness both the rise of Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. Poet of the Common Man" and audiences superstar Garth Brooks and the return of an looking beyond race to embrace Charley 9:00 Country Music "The Rub (Beginnings aging Johnny Cash to the industry he helped Pride. -1933)" create. 9:00 Country Music "The Sons and Daughters of 9:00 Country Music "Don't Get Above Your Raisin 16 MONDAY America (1964 -1968)" (1984 -1996)" 7:00 Country Music "Hard Times (1933 -1945)" Watch as Nashville becomes the heart of the 23 MONDAY country music industry.The genre grows in 7:00 Country Music "Will The Circle Be ADDITIONAL BROADCAST TIMES popularity during the Great Depression and Unbroken? (1968 -1972)" Learn how country World War II as America falls in love with music responds to a nation divided by 22 SUNDAY singing cowboys, Texas Swing and the Grand the Vietnam War, as Army captain turned 11:00 Country Music “The Rub (Beginnings -1933)” Ole Opry's Roy Acuff. songwriter Kris Kristofferson sets a new 12:00 Country Music “The Rub (Beginnings -1933)” 9:00 Country Music "Hard Times (1933 -1945)" lyrical standard, and artists like Bob Dylan 1:00 Country Music “Hard Times (1933 -1945)” and the Byrds find a recording home in 3:00 Country Music “The Hillbilly Shakespeare Nashville. 17 TUESDAY (1945 -1953) 9:00 Country Music "Will The Circle Be 5:00 Country Music “I Can’t Stop Loving You 7:00 Country Music "The Hillbilly Shakespeare Unbroken? (1968 -1972)" (1945 -1953)" See how the bluegrass sound (1953 -1963)” spreads in post-war America, and meet 6:00 Country Music “I Can’t Stop Loving You honky-tonk star Hank Williams, whose songs 24 TUESDAY (1953 -1963)” of surprisingly emotional depth are derived 7:00 Country Music "Are You Sure Hank Done It from his troubled and tragically short life. This Way? (1973 -1983)" Witness a vibrant era 29 SUNDAY 9:00 Country Music "The Hillbilly Shakespeare in country music, with Dolly Parton finding 10:30 Country Music “The Sons and Daughters of (1945 -1953)" mainstream success; Hank Williams, Jr. and America (1964 -1968)” Rosanne Cash emerging from their famous 12:00 Country Music “The Sons and Daughters of fathers' shadows; and Willie Nelson and 18 WEDNESDAY America (1964 -1968)” Waylon Jennings launching the "Outlaw" 7:00 Country Music "I Can't Stop Loving You movement. 12:30 Country Music “Will The Circle Be Unbroken? (1968 -1972)” (1953 -1963)" Travel to Memphis, where Sun 9:30 Country Music "Are You Sure Hank Done It Studios artists Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley This Way? (1973 -1983)" 2:30 Country Music “Are You Sure Hank Done It usher in the era of rockabilly.Ray Charles This Way? (1973 -1983)” crosses America's racial divide by recording a 5:00 Country Music “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin country album. (1984 -1996)” 9:00 Country Music "I Can't Stop Loving You 6:00 Country Music “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin (1953 -1963)" (1984 -1996)”.
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