Lady A: The Messy Battle Over a Country Band's Rebrand
A haunted antebellum mansion, a 2006 Nashville photo shoot, and an offhand joke about a ghost gave one of country music's biggest trios its name — and planted a time bomb. Lady Antebellum's 2020 rebra...
11 Kesä 19min
Jessi Colter: From Church Piano to Outlaw Country Queen
At 11 years old she was leading worship from a church piano in an Arizona Pentecostal congregation, her mother an ordained preacher. By the leather-clad 1970s, that same girl — born Miriam Johnson — h...
11 Kesä 20min
Jason Aldean: Country Music's Most Polarizing Superstar
A Georgia kid taught himself guitar from chord charts his dad hand-drew on notebook paper — and grew up to become country music's most polarizing superstar. Jason Aldean's journey runs from DIY living...
11 Kesä 21min
Moe Bandy: The Sheet Metal Worker Who Conquered Honky Tonk
Moe Bandy spent 12 years bending sheet metal by day before becoming one of honky tonk's most authentic voices. The factory worker turned country music star built a 1970s career on hard-edged drinking ...
11 Kesä 17min
Orville Peck: The South African Punk Behind the Mask
A masked man with a booming bass-baritone stepped onto the country music stage and refused to show his face. Orville Peck, the South African-born former punk drummer behind the fringed mask, has becom...
11 Kesä 21min
Don Gibson: The Stuttering Boy Who Wrote Country Gold
Don Gibson dropped out of school in the second grade because a paralyzing stutter left him unable to speak. That silenced North Carolina kid grew up to become country music's "sad poet," writing some ...
11 Kesä 17min
Luke Bryan: The Tragedies Behind the Party Anthems
Luke Bryan wrote the soundtrack to a million carefree summer nights, but the king of country music party anthems built that beaming stadium persona on top of unthinkable family tragedy. Just as the Ge...
11 Kesä 20min
Gary Stewart: The Tragic Forgotten King of Honky-Tonk
Time magazine crowned Gary Stewart the King of Honky Tonk, Bob Dylan was mesmerized by his sound, and the Allman Brothers counted him as a friend. Yet today the man with a number one Billboard country...
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