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Five CD set. "If you write the truth and you're writing about your life, it's going to be country. It'll be country 'cause you're writing what's happening. And that's all a good song is." - Loretta Lynn. Country Music, the eight-part, 16-hour film by Ken Burns, chronicles the creation of a truly American genre of music through the songs and stories of it's greatest trailblazers. Country Music A Film By Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) includes more than 100 timeless classics as heard in the film, including songs by The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and many more. This deluxe set includes 68 pages of liner notes and rarely seen archival photos, documents and memorabilia. Album Tracks DISC 1 1. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (78RPM Version) - Carter Family, the - 3 07 2. Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) - Rodgers, Jimmie - 2 57 3. Barbara Allen - Kincaid, Bradley - 2 35 4. I'll Fly Away - James and Martha Carson - 2 23 5. If the River Was Whiskey - Poole, Charlie with the North Carolina Ramblers - 3 09 6. Fox Chase - Bailey, Deford - 1 09 7. Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' on the Corner) - Rodgers, Jimmie - 2 40 8. Wildwood Flower - Carter Family, the - 3 12 9. In the Jailhouse Now - Rodgers, Jimmie - 3 18 10. Comin' Round the Mountain - Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee - 3 07 11. . Pretty Polly (78RPM Version) - Coon Creek Girls - 2 48 12. T.B. Blues - Rodgers, Jimmie - 2 59 13. Mountain Dew - Grandpa Jones and His Granchildren - 2 39 14. Home on the Range - Autry, Gene - 2 38 15. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart - Montana, Patsy & the Prairie Ramblers - 3 06 16. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Single Version) - Sons of the Pioneers, the - 3 12 17. Medley Keep on the Sunny Side / I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes; Keep on the Sunny