Dirty Boots: Ken Burns’ “Country Music”

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. For the last couple of weeks, my wife and I have been watching Ken Burns’ new Country Music documentaries on PBS. Restraining our urge to jump forward, we began with the first episode, which covered the Depression-era roots in early radio shows, and have enjoyed both learning and reminiscing as we’ve worked our way through subsequent episodes. We just watched the next-to-last… Read more Dirty Boots: Ken Burns’ “Country Music” →