What blew me out of the water was that we now have a great Jimmy Rogers documentary inside of Episode One. There’s one on the Carter Family, and Hank Williams. I’ve been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years. There’s always gonna be somebody that got left out, in some other person’s opinion he says it happens in every film. Ken is in the cultural history business it’s not about the chart, always. I knew right away that they were gonna get hollered at - because so-and-so wasn’t in the film, and he sold 30 million records. I was looking for what had not been seen, or said - what subject matter kind of gets swept under the carpet and maybe not been dealt with. I went in there with a raised eyebrow this story’s been told many times before.
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When you were screening the series with Burns, do you recall any parts you thought needed to be changed, or tweaked?
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But Connie’s son was home from Taiwan for Christmas maybe eight or nine years ago, and said, “I saw Ken Burns on TV last night - he was talking about maybe doing something on country music.” So the next day I wrote Ken a fan letter basically saying, “If you do this, consider me and my office ground zero for you and your crew. At this point in my life, I don’t make a big effort to meet people. But in July, I finished a leg of dates with Chris Stapleton, went up there and spent three days in a room with Dayton and Ken and the editors, going through every frame of the film - looking for mistakes, things that could be said differently, or whatever. They’d had several gatherings I was invited to, but couldn’t attend because we were touring so heavy. One of the things I learned is when they approach a subject, they immediately surround themselves with the best minds, the best scholars, whatever the subject is. And I thought, “Well, that’s the perfect setting for Ken and Florentine Films.” They’re about getting back to the bedrock, original vision of America, and holding our feet to the fire with that. Well, the first thing, driving up there, I just started laughing, because I thought the landscape around Walpole is probably what America looked like when the pilgrims were out hanging out - when they were tramping around the woods and decided, like, “OK, let’s call this a place!” Like, nothing’s changed. You visited Burns up in New Hampshire during the making of the film. And then came Baseball and Jazz and Prohibition and on and on. Yeah - those three things just kind of drew me into the flame.
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