Ken Burns’ documentary series on the history of country music ends in the ‘90s, but its questions about race and authenticity echo today’s “Old Town Road” debates. And “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.” And “Donny & Marie,” whose Marie Osmond was a more than a little bit country. Robert Lloyd has been a Los Angeles Times television critic since 2003. For a long time, Burns’s documentaries were a staple of Netflix’s library.

No, not that one, “I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die.”, Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus, Photos: Trump team wants more Michigan vote inspectors, Election experts and officials respond to Trump’s false claims of victory, fraud. Mike Judge’s dust-dry, barely animated “King of the Hill,” about a Texas propane salesman, featured cameos from Nelson, Wynette, Clint Black, the Dixie Chicks, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Wynonna Judd, Paisley and George Strait. “Mr. Country is the soundtrack to a certain American dream, to powerful stories we tell ourselves about what makes us good, and free, and authentic people — even when we’re only trying, and sometimes failing, to be. Things are thrown, guns shot. When country characters do scheme, it’s often for purposes of comedy or in response to those foolish enough to take them for fools; they’re scamps. 521, This story has been shared 467 times. As pictured over decades of movies and television series, “country” is an imagined, not exactly imaginary place, an audiovisual nostalgic needlepoint sampler of simple pleasures and family values — “Little House on the Prairie” was built there, “The Waltons” too. Now, catch a special preview of this exciting series. The broadcast of the Ken Burns-produced 8-part, 16-hour documentary on country music could very well be the most significant event to happen in country music in 2019, if not in the next few years. Perhaps it’s because, whatever small-town small-mindedness might exist in the nonfictional world, forgiveness is built into these stories. (We could be here for days just discussing Parton’s television oeuvre, which includes musical specials, TV movies, Christmas specials, TV movies that are also Christmas specials and two variety shows under her own name — as well as three appearances on “Hannah Montana” as Aunt Dolly.) There was “The Johnny Cash Show,” which was solid music all the way through. George Jones’ first No.

With Peter Coyote, Marty Stuart, Brenda Lee, Dolly Parton. Alex Lee, a 25-year-old San Jose Democrat, will become the youngest state legislator in more than 80 years and the first to have come out as bisexual. All you need to do is change your Netflix ™ country. Move over, chartthrobs King, Kornacki. Native Americans aren’t happy. Sophistication is a sort of sickness.

Indeed, some had histories harder or stranger than anything they would ever actually sing about.

Longtime NBC News star Al Roker says he will undergo surgery and his prognosis is good. The real story of every sad song is that the singer has managed to sing it: Everything might turn out fine.