NEW In the first of three programmes,
Nick Barraclough looks at the phenomenon of New Country music.
In the last three years Nashville has seen the biggest boom in country music for decades. Middle America has taken New
Country music to its heart. But the movement began more than a decade ago. Nick begins his series by talking to Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs , among others, about the New
Traditional movement that began to make itself felt in Nashville in the early 80s. A Smooth Operations production