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Why Nashville Can't Quit Country Music
A historian on the Ken Burns documentary Country Music explains why the Tennessee capital’s bond with country music endures, even as the city has boomed.
Men, women, and children used to flock to Nashville with one thing in mind: making a splash in country music.
The ascent of that industry in the postwar era put the Tennessee capital on the cultural map. Over the past 20 years, however, Nashville has enjoyed a different kind of boom, one that can’t be credited to twangy guitars and sad songs.