• Track Listing

In advance of Burns’ highly anticipated country-music documentary series comes this 5-CD soundtrack—and it’s just as stellar as we’d hoped. In typically comprehensive fashion, this Burns series covers its subject matter with impeccable detail, and so here we have country’s pioneers along with decades of stars who broke new ground and gave us classics up through the modern era. This is one of those "if you’re only gonna have one country collection" sets: "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" Carter Family, "Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)" Jimmie Rodgers, "Home on the Range" Gene Autry, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" Sons of the Pioneers, "The Great Speckled Bird" Roy Acuff, "Whoa Babe" Bob Wills, "It’s Mighty Dark to Travel" Bill Monroe, "Lovesick Blues," "Hey, Good Lookin’" Hank Williams, "I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" Eddy Arnold, "It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" Kitty Wells, "Crazy Arms" Ray Price, "Ring of Fire," "I Walk the Line" Johnny Cash, "Hello Walls" Faron Young, "I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline, "I Can’t Stop Loving You" Ray Charles, "Dang Me" Roger Miller, "Coal Miner’s Daughter" Loretta Lynn, "Stand by Your Man" Tammy Wynette, "Me and Bobby McGee" Kris Kristofferson, "She Thinks I Still Care" George Jones, "Okie from Muskogee" Merle Haggard, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" Waylon Jennings, "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You" Dolly Parton, "On the Road Again," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" Willie Nelson plus Emmylous Harris, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Vince Gill, Rosanne Cash, Ricky Skaggs, George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, the Judds and more! (Also available here: a highlights edition with 29 tracks on 140-gram double vinyl or 41 tracks on 2 CDs.) Sony Legacy.