The Civil War Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning «American Songwriter

The Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, c.1960. Photograph by The Leverett The Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Gettysburg, and through the green valleys on the ridge's western flank marched Union and Confederate armies to some of the most pivotal battles Civil War: Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Cedar Creek, Antietam and Gettysburg. Filmmaker Ken Burns in his 1990 documentary series The Civil War. It's still his most popular film, even more than 1994's Baseball, 2001's 2017 Gold Jazz's The Vietnam War. Burns returns to those same oak-carpeted slopes in his new series Country Music, something of a sequel to The Civil War. In Bristol, Tenn., The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers made their first recordings in 1927 and launched modern country music. Stanley Brothers, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn. "I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley," Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor tells me, "has a heavy place with the history of the Civil War. Ken's film really impacted me at about age 12; he made my own backyard …

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