Let It Roll CountryRoll 8: George Strait, Reba McEntire, & Dwight Yoakam Re-Center Country in the 80s, Garth Brooks Blows the Doors off in the 90s
Host Nate Wilcox & music writer James Porter continue discussing Ken Burns' Country Music with a look at the emergence of country music's neo-traditionalists like Randy Travis and Ricky Skaggs, and the brief golden period they kicked off before the economics of superstars like Garth Brooks changed the game.
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