PBS turned over to Ken Burns the responsibility to assemble the history of country music and we all know what a disaster that turned out to be. Scores of artists were never even mentioned, despite the multi-part, very lengthy series. Michael Streissguth, that scholar who wrote that completely honest book on Jim Reeves (I'm being sarcastic) was one of Mr. Burns' consultants. Did that factor into the short shrift Jim was given in the so-called documentary? There was a website, whose address I have since forgotten, that contained scores of posts from outraged fans who couldn't believe that any so-called documentarian like Ken Burns and his team could have so totally botched their presentation regarding country music. Many people were irate about their favorite artists being ignored. Yet the Burns pseudo-documentary keeps being heralded as THE definitive work and gets shown again and again, and aggressively marketed in DVD format. He also appeared in Nashville and was given a hero's welcome at the Opry. It was truly sickening. So don't expect anybody to come along and pay any notice to Jim Reeves or other major contributors to the history of country music. I had always admired Ken, and even received a nice letter about my Jim Reeves book from his office. But after the country music disaster I began to wonder how accurate his other historical series really were.