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Documentary produced by Marty Robbins. | dG1fdVpYQXpVT2FaNVk
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00:00I'm so lonesome I could cry
00:04Country music comes from right in here.
00:07This heart and soul that we all have.
00:10You can dance to it. You can make love to it.
00:13You can play it at a funeral.
00:15It has something in it for everybody.
00:18Country music is about human emotions.
00:21We're always looking for those topics that are going to tell us a lot about who we are.
00:26Not just to the era that we cover, but who we are now.
00:30If you want to look for super strong women telling really amazing stories, you went to Country.
00:37I mean, the songs are just life.
00:39I've seen it or I've lived it.
00:42And I never would tell my husband which one it was.
00:46I believe that you can go look and find a Country song that will help you feel better.
00:52Sometimes it might make you cry, but you'll feel better.
00:54This is the story of a uniquely American art form that sometimes gets defined as three chords and the truth.
01:02And the people who made it, created it, and how it became a business.
01:08My dad, he worked out all of his problems on stage.
01:17That's where he took his anguish and fears and griefs, and he worked them out with an audience.
01:23That's just who he was.
01:25I hope that when people hear of the series, that they'll tune in.
01:31It made a convert out of me.
01:32It's a wonderful story.
01:34Crazy.
01:36I'm crazy.
01:38I always thought it was a really good song, and I played it for Patsy Cline, and she thought it was a great song.
01:46It's phenomenally great music about people who felt their stories weren't being told.
01:51I think that's utterly American.
01:53I could cry.

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