
6591: John Prine From Mailman to Songwriting Legend
So you're sitting in a small kind of smoky club in New York City called The Bitter End. Up on stage is a guy who just a few months prior was spending his days trudging through the snow delivering mail...
14 Kesä 17min

6590: Jo Dee Messina outlasted the music machine
I want you to picture the year 1996. You've just released an absolute smash hit, a song called Heads Carolina, Tails California. You are suddenly in such high demand to the point where you perform an ...
14 Kesä 20min

6589: Jelly Roll s impossible path to redemption
I want you to imagine, just for a second, looking at a resume that seems, well, completely physically impossible. So you are holding two pieces of paper. And on the first page, you're reading the prof...
14 Kesä 18min

6588: How Survivor Guilt Forged Outlaw Country
It's the early hours of February 3rd, 1959. The middle of this absolutely freezing winter tour in the Midwest. And you have this young, exhausted bass player who is just shivering on a tour bus. And h...
14 Kesä 19min

6587: How Kris Kristofferson became a Nashville janitor
I want you to imagine a guy with a resume so impossibly perfect. It honestly sounds like, well, like a mid -century fiction writer just made it up. It's almost cartoonish how perfect it is. I mean, we...
14 Kesä 22min

6586: How Faith Hill Conquered Country and Pop
A 19 -year -old girl raised in a devoutly Christian home in a tiny Mississippi town decides she's just, well, she's had enough of college. She drops out, packs up her life, and moves to Nashville with...
14 Kesä 22min

6584: Guy Clark and the Handmade Song
Usually, when we talk about a musical pioneer, there's this expectation of a lasting, tangible monument. Right, like a statue in a hometown square. Exactly, or a sprawling museum exhibit, just somethi...
14 Kesä 19min

6583: Gram Parsons and the Joshua Tree Fire
You are standing in the middle of the California desert, right out in the Joshua Tree National Monument. The sun is just baking the scrub brush. The sky is that endless stark blue. He wanted it to be ...
14 Kesä 21min



















