6643: Tanya Tucker's Wild Ride from Delta Dawn to Living Legend
Tanya Tucker was 13 years old when 'Delta Dawn' made her a country music star. She was a teenager performing adult heartbreak for stadium crowds, and nobody in the industry thought twice about what th...
14 Kesä 17min
6642: Stoney Edwards and the Color Line Country Music Tried to Erase
Stoney Edwards was a Black country artist in the 1970s who sang traditional honky-tonk as authentically as anyone in Nashville. He scored legitimate hits, earned critical praise, and performed on the ...
14 Kesä 16min
6641: How Skeeter Davis Survived the End of the World
Skeeter Davis recorded 'The End of the World' after surviving a car accident that killed her best friend and musical partner. The song's devastating simplicity—a woman asking why the world keeps turni...
14 Kesä 21min
6640: Shania Twain and the Nashville Midriff War That Changed Everything
When Shania Twain showed her midriff in a music video, Nashville lost its collective mind. The industry that had no problem with men singing about honky-tonk infidelity decided that a woman's exposed ...
14 Kesä 21min
6639: Why Ricky Van Shelton Chose Duck Hunting Over Stardom
Ricky Van Shelton was one of the biggest country stars of the late 1980s—platinum albums, number-one hits, CMA awards, the full Nashville coronation. Then he walked away from all of it to go duck hunt...
14 Kesä 18min
6638: Pat Green and the Texas Music Movement He Built and Left Behind
Pat Green was the king of Texas country music before the mainstream knew Texas country existed. He packed dance halls across the state, sold hundreds of thousands of independent albums out of his truc...
14 Kesä 18min
6637: Why Oliver Anthony Rejected Eight Million Dollars
Oliver Anthony was living in a camper on a friend's property when 'Rich Men North of Richmond' went viral and became the most-streamed song in America. Within weeks, he was fielding eight-figure recor...
14 Kesä 18min
6636: How Nickel Creek Went from Pizza Parlor Prodigies to Genre Pioneers
Nickel Creek started playing together when Chris Thile was eight years old, performing at pizza parlors and bluegrass festivals with a technical precision that embarrassed musicians three times their ...
14 Kesä 19min
