As its title suggests, Robert Altman’s masterpiece is set in the world of Country music, but with its cast of 24 characters and almost the same number of intertwined and intersecting stories, it delves deep into the conciousness and conscience of America circa 1975 in Altman’s unmistakable mosiac style. A long, rambling but devastatingly focused, unfailingly absorbing and humane dissection of business, entertainment and politics.