♪ I'm so lonesome I could die ♪
BROOKS: Country music comes 
from right in here. 
This heart and soul 
that we all have.
PARTON: You can dance to it, 
you can make love to it,
you can play it at a funeral.
It has something in it
 for everybody.
BURNS: Country music is 
about human emotions.
We're always looking for 
those topics that
are going to tell us a lot 
about who we are.
Not just to the era 
that we cover,
but who we are now.
GIDDENS: If you wanted 
to look for like,
super strong women telling
really amazing stories,
you went to country. 
♪♪
LYNN: I mean the songs 
were just life.
It's I've seen it, 
or I've lived it.
And I never would tell my
husband which one was.
PRIDE: I believe that you can go
look and find a country song,
that will help you feel better.
Sometimes it might make you cry 
but you'll feel better.
DUNCAN: This is the story of a
uniquely American art form,
that sometimes gets defined as
three chords and the truth.
And the people who 
made it, created it,
and how it became a business.
CASH: Hello I'm Johnny Cash.
♪♪
CASH: My dad, he worked out all
of his problems on stage.
That's where he took his anguish
and fears and griefs,
and he worked them out 
with an audience.
That's just who he was.
EWERS: I hope that when people
hear of the series 
that they'll tune in. 
It made me a convert out of me,
it's a wonderful story.
♪♪
NELSON: I always thought it was
a really good song 
and I played it for Patsy Cline 
and she thought it was 
a great song.
BURNS: It's phenomenally great
music about people 
who felt their stories 
weren't being told. 
I think that's utterly American.
♪♪
