Country music in 2020 is what . Stronger than a garlic milkshake. I mean, its true. That was good. Good evening, everyone, im Robin Roberts. Tonight, like so many americans, the Country Music Community Feels the weight and the promise of a year like no other, so, on the eve of the cma awards, nashville superstars in their own words tell the story of Country Music in 2020. A story of reckoning, reflection and resilience. Bringing you a live front row seat from nashvilles new years eve celebration. 3, 2, 1, happy new year covid19 can be characterized as a pandemic. New cases being reported as it turns deadly in the u. S. For the first time. The number of coronavirus cases at home and abroad continue to climb. Take a step for a minute i played the houston rodeo back in march and i was nine months pregnant. Our only fear was like, can i make it through this show without going into labor . I was the last show at the houston rodeo before they closed that down. For the first time in more than
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 influenced by africanAmerican Music. The music itself over the decades has had very few africanamerican stars, it has is not an island nation separated by water from Everything Else. It is connected to jazz and the blues and rhythm and blues. With rhythm and it is the parent of rock n roll and is connected to folk, rock
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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
From comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor yeah welcome to the daily show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in thank you for coming out thank you im trevor noah so good to have you here our guest tonight, lets do it, our guest tonight is the creator and star of the new netflix sitcom special about his life as a gay disabled man, Ryan Oconnell is joining us, everybody cheers and applause also on the show, joe biden grabs ahold of the president ial race. Roy wood, jr. Takes his horse to the old town road, and everyone knows your instagram is fake. But first, lets catch up on todays headlines. The American Economy is booming. In fact, unemployment is so low that companies are having trouble finding employees, which is why mcdonalds is looking anywhere it can. Mcdonalds wants workers to spend some of their golden years at the golden arches. The fast food giant partnering with aarp in an effort to hire