For more than fifty years, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has preserved and shared country music's ever-evolving story through our collections, exhibitions, educational programming, and research. Starting Sunday, September 15, documentarian Ken Burns turns his lens on this uniquely American art form with Country Music.

A prodigy on steel guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, “Little Doug” Sahm made his radio debut at age five, performing on the influential Louisiana Hayride at eight. By eleven, he’d shared a stage with Hank Williams. Child stardom flowed into later success, Sahm working country and rock influences into an early Americana blend. He formed the Sir Douglas Quintet in the sixties (earning rock hits with “She’s About a Mover” and “Mendocino”), collaborated with the likes of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson as a solo artist in the seventies, and in the eighties, formed Grammy-winning supergroup the Texas Tornados alongside Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, and Freddy Fender.



RIGHT: Doug Sahm

PHOTO: Van Brooks, courtesy of South Austin Popular Culture Center

The premiere is here: Join singer-songwriter Carly Pearce and some of her friends and collaborators in "Unbroken Circle," an original video series produced by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in support of the exhibit "American Currents: The Music of 2018."

Marty Stuart has a fittingly impressive list of guests lined up for his September shows as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Artist-in-Residence, and he's just announced the names. You won't want to miss these once-in-a-lifetime, only-in-Nashville evenings.

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn rocketed to stardom in the 1990s, and for two decades, they remained leaders in country music, with hits including “Neon Moon,” “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “Hard Workin’ Man,” “My Maria” and “Red Dirt Road.”



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Channeling her own galactic country spirit and influences from Dolly Parton to Daft Punk, Kacey Musgraves is riding a critical wave behind her Grammy-winning, universally acclaimed album Golden Hour.