In each episode of this hit podcast, Nashville-based creator Tyler Mahan Coe takes a deep dive into the sparkle, sweat, and tears of 20th century country music history and lore. Lifelong country fans will appreciate Coe's thorough approach to the subject, while those new to the genre and fans of narrative-style podcasts will enjoy discovering a new facet of American cultural history. A sampling of...

Lula Belle and Scotty Wiseman were a husband and wife country duo that rose to fame in the mid-1930s. They appeared on the National Barn Dance broadcast in Chicago and their most famous song was "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" This remarkable collection from the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina brings together some of their home movie reels from 1938...

A companion resource to Ken Burns's documentary Country Music, Roots & Branches of Country Music invites readers to explore the diverse origins, influences, and offshoots of the genre. Gospel tent revivals, British ballads, travelling minstrel shows, and banjo traditions dating back to ancient Egypt are all among the "roots" of American country music, and it has since spread its "branches" from...