i remember in jazz a lit critic told us of charlie parker perfecting the bebop that he invented. between sets he s feeding the juke boxer putting in nickels, playing country music, playing hank williams, and the cats are going, bird, why are you playing that? and he goes, listen to the stories. and so when we said yes, when we got down on our knees and proposed to country music, we knew this was going to be about stories and a way in which you can surround the songs with those stories and lift them up. so when you find out why dolly parton wrote i will always love you, a woman s declaration of independence. when you hear the story of why dolly wrote it, dolly taking nothing away from whitney goes to that level. the carter family early recordings, is it the equivalent of having the federalist papers on tape? it s exactly that.
of it airing on pbs. we are so thrilled to have ken burns here with us. thank you for coming. thank you, my friend. thank you. how on earth is there a white board in your studio that we need to see? like a beautiful mind? are there post its? how do you take something this vast and organize them into pieces. well, most of the credit goes to my longtime producing partner and writer dayton duncan who wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes. and our coproducer, julie dunn fee who found the photographs and the footage and conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz a lit critic told us of charlie parker perfecting the bebop that he
most of the credit goes to my long-time producing partner and writer dayton duncan, who wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes and our co-producer julie dunphy who set off the team that was finding the photographs and finding the footage and conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz, the late critic nat hentoff told us of this time when charlie parker was on 52nd street perfecting the be-bop that he invented and between sets he s feeding the jukebox, putting in nickels, playing country music, playing hank williams, playing i m so lonesome i could cry. and the cats are going, bird, why are you playing that? and he goes, listen to the stories. so when we said yes, when we got down on our knees and proposed to country music, we knew this was going to be about stories and a way in which you could surround the songs with those
vast, any of the topics and organize them into pieces? most of the credit goes to my longtime producing partner dayton duncan. wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes and our co-producer julie dunphy who set off the team that was finding the photographs and finding the footage and conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz, the late critic nat hentoff told us of this time when charlie parker was on 52nd street perfecting the be-bop that he invented and between sets he s feeding the jukebox, putting in nickels, playing country music, playing hank williams, playing i m so lonesome i could cry. and the cats are going, bird, why are you playing that? and he goes, listen to the stories. so when we said yes, when we got down on our knees and proposed to country music, we knew this was going to be about stories
conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz, the late critic nat hentoff told us of this time when charlie parker was on 52nd street perfecting the be-bop that he invented and between sets he s feeding the jukebox, putting in nickels, playing country music, playing hank williams, playing i m so lonesome i could cry. and the cats are going, bird, why are you playing that? and he goes, listen to the stories. so when we said yes, when we got down on our knees and proposed to country music, we knew this was going to be about stories and a way in which you could surround the songs with those stories and lift them up. so when you find out why dolly parton wrote i will always love you, a kind of declaration, a woman s declaration of independence, we all remember whitney houston s version, it raises the hair on the back of our necks still. but when you hear the story of why dolly wrote it and dolly s version taking nothing away from whitney goes up to th