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This Ken Burns Effect begins with awe at the staggering too-muchness of a Burns project.
and Keep on the Sunny Side to Crazy and I Fall to Pieces.
And its the intelligence of Burnss filmmaking, which is sometimes mistaken for mere craftsmanship.
Unfortunately, its in these sociopolitical aspects thatCountry Musicloses focus and, seemingly, nerve.
Burns isnt cynically avoiding the subject of inequality, mind you.
Its all overCountry Music, just not as consistently as in his masterworks.
The three of them together are as crackling an ensemble as the bands they profile.
Then Burns cuts to that very photograph of Rodgers with his thumbs up, and you fall to pieces.
