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Anything I have access to in my collection, my archive, is yours. Whatever you need, the answer is yes.”Ībout a month later I got a letter back from Dayton, and a few weeks after that he was sitting in my office.
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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. I think it was a combination of subject, Shelby Foote’s narration - the sound of his voice - and that fiddle tune… He first crossed my path on The Civil War. Were you a Ken Burns fan before this project?Ī major fan. He spoke about it earlier this year with Rolling Stone from a tour stop in California. He’d reached out to Burns when he first heard about the project nearly 10 years ago, and was involved on both sides of the camera throughout the process.
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Stuart was deeply involved in the making of Ken Burns’ epic new documentary series Country Music.