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Kris Kristofferson
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America's Music: The Roots of Country is a 1996 three-part, six episode documentary about the history of American country music directed by Tom Neff and Jerry Aronson and written by Neff and Robert K. Oermann. The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound. Country music artist and actor Kris Kristofferson narrates the three-part series. The film was produced by Wild Wolf Productions for TBS Superstation and shown on three consecutive nights beginning on June 2, 1996. It was repeated only once in the Fall of 2011.
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Kris Kristofferson Narrator
Waylon Jennings Self (1996)
June Carter Cash Self (1996)
Crew
Elvis Presley Self (1996)
Bob Dylan Self (1996)
Roy Rogers Self (1996)
Jerry Lee Lewis Self (1996)
Tex Ritter Self (1996)
Gene Autry Self (1996)
Joan Baez Self (1996)
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