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Host joining us now is documentary filmmaker ken burns, talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. What convinced you this was a topic worth exploring . Guest we are looking for good stories in american history, ones that are firing on all cylinders and hold of the complicated history of who we are. Is filled with extraordinary, great creativity, and engaging almost all of the themes and some themes subthemes we have dealt with in the past 40 years in filmmaking. Race, gender, commerce, we came off our vietnam series and a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican tutors or were heavily infl
Freedoms. Explore our nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Joining us now is ken burns talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. Thank you for joining us. This isvinced you that a topic worth exploring . We are always looking for good stories in American History that are firing on all cylinders. Country music was filled with the stories. Engagingativity and almost all of the themes that we dealt with over the last 40 years of filmmaking. Race, gender, region, creativity versus commerce. All of these wonderful things. And a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican
Good evening, everyone. Traffic on the bay bridge toll plaza backed up at this hour as you can see in some of the lanes it has been pretty bad all day. The doyle drive closure causing traffic headache tuesday for drivers in and out of San Francisco. Commuters of course have been warned to steer clear of the Golden Gate Bridge corridor. Caltrans has 79 hours to finish work on the approach. And live near presidio parkway in San Francisco with a look at the progress. Janice . Reporter after tonight one more full day of construction. Crews say so far so good. It looks like they have paved most of the lanes. Theyre making good progress. They say theyre right on schedule to reopen doyle drive by early monday morning. Construction on doyle drive is well under way. It is the second day it has been closed and crews are hard at work. Pouring cement paving the roadways, and installing medians. The work is being done to create a safer wider connection known as presidio parkway. Some are calling it
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