Country roads!

Join Rob Brydon for a trip around America's Deep South in a country-music-themed travel series...

- WORDS: TESS LAMACRAFT, IAN MACEWAN. PHOTOS: ALAMY, BBC

Rob Brydon scored an unlikely No 1 hit with his twist on a country classic – (Barry) Islands in the Stream, a duet with Gavin & Stacey costar Ruth Jones in 2009. Now he's hitting the road to explore the history of country music in America's Deep South in a three-part travelogue, and the first episode finds him duetting once more, this time with Take That's Gary Barlow, who's doing a spot of songwriting in Tennessee's country-music capital, Nashvil