1. Ken Burns explores the true roots of country music in new documentary  CBS News
2. New documentary explores the true roots of country music  WCBI
3. Ken Burns on his country music love story  PBS NewsHour
4. Think you don’t like country music? Ken Burns’ new PBS opus will play your heart like a fiddle  Salon
5. Ken Burns’s Massive Country Music Is Powerful, Beautiful, and Somehow Still Incomplete  Vulture
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TODAY Begins Two Days of the Hottest Coolest Music at the Blues and BBQ Festival in Patterson NY  HamletHub

Join the Patterson Rotary for their two-day annual Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday, September 14 at noon -7pm and Sunday, September 15 at noon – 6pm.

Blues at Timbuctoo moved indoors due to weather forecast | News, Sports, Jobs  The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

LAKE PLACID — The location of today’s Blues at Timbuctoo music festival has been moved due to weather concern. The event is being moved from the John.

Patterson Blues and BBQ This Weekend  HamletHub

Two Days of Amazing Bands at Patterson Rotary’s Blues and BBQ This Weekend.

Freedom Blues Fest to bring music to La Crosse’s north side Friday  News8000.com – WKBT

A lot of people will be enjoying the blues Friday in La Crosse.

Auditor Finds Documentation Issues at Blues Commission | Mississippi Politics and News  Yall Politics

Report recommends abolishing commission and assigning its responsibilities to nonprofit organization. A performance audit released today by State Auditor …

Blues at Timbuctoo music fest returns to Lake Placid | News, Sports, Jobs  The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

LAKE PLACID — The fourth annual Blues at Timbuctoo (BT2) festival will bring three class acts to the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on Saturday, Sept. 1.

Mellowing out in Music City | Musical roots run deep in Nashville the city dominating the new PBS series ‘Country Music’  Texarkana Gazette

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jay McDowell is a nerd, he’s quick to point out. The head nerd, in fact, of the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Or at least …

Black Artists Built Country Music—And Then It Left Them Behind  TIME

The new PBS documentary series by Ken Burns delves into the black artists that helped shape country music, and then were left behind.

Singled Out: John Vento’s Baby Blues  antiMUSIC.com

John Vento tells us about the song ‘Baby Blues’ from his album ‘Love, Lust & Other Wreckage’ to celebrate the opening of a stage play of the same name …