Chris Stapleton: 1,000 Songs Before the Spotlight
In 1996 he was a biomedical engineering student at Vanderbilt University. Today he's a heavily bearded outlaw country superstar with a diamond-certified record who sang the national anthem at the Supe...
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Eric Church: The Outlaw Who Got Fired Into Stardom
He landed the golden ticket of country music — opening for Rascal Flatts on a massive stadium tour — and got fired for playing too loud and too long. Eric Church turned that firing into the founding m...
11 Kesä 18min
Maggie Rose: From Tomato Gate to Grammy Nominations
She started at 16 belting Bruce Springsteen covers in a tribute band, spent a decade inside Nashville's tightly controlled country radio machine, and finally earned Grammy nominations by throwing out ...
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Sturgill Simpson: The Grammy Winner Who Torched His Own Name
He won a Grammy for country music, then handed his major label a sleazy synth-rock album paired with a dystopian Japanese anime film on Netflix — and walked away leaving a million dollars in unrecoupe...
11 Kesä 21min
Whiskey Myers: From Texas Dive Bars to Yellowstone Fame
Their founding bass player didn't even know how to play the instrument, and they spent eleven years grinding dingy Texas dive bars — then a cowboy soap opera turned Whiskey Myers into an overnight glo...
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Jerry Jeff Walker: The New Yorker Who Invented Texas Outlaw Country
A kid from upstate New York named Ronald went AWOL from the National Guard, wrote one of the most covered songs in American history, then walked away from that fame to help invent Texas outlaw country...
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John Anderson: From Roofing the Opry to Country Music Legend
He was a Florida teenager blasting Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones — then became one of the most unmistakable voices in new traditionalist country music. John Anderson's road to country legend sta...
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K.T. Oslin: From Jingle Singer to CMA History at Age 45
She was singing hemorrhoid-medication jingles on national television in her 30s — then at age 45 became the first woman ever to win the CMA Song of the Year. K.T. Oslin shattered country music's age a...
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