
6633: Martina McBride and the Staggering Cost of Independence
Martina McBride earned 14 Grammy nominations without winning a single one. She sold over 14 million albums, tied records for CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, and built one of the most powerful voices ...
14 Kesä 25min

6612: How Bailey Zimmerman Went from Pipeline Welder to Country Superstar
Bailey Zimmerman was a 20-year-old gas pipeline worker in rural Illinois when a bored Snapchat video changed everything. That casual 15-second clip of him singing went viral, launching one of the most...
14 Kesä 21min

6585: How Carly Pearce Outworked Every Rejection
Carly Pearce refused to let Nashville say no. From her teenage years performing at Dollywood to sleeping on friends' couches while chasing a record deal, she spent over a decade grinding through rejec...
14 Kesä 21min

6610: Wanda Jackson the Queen of Rockabilly
Imagine walking into a recording studio boardroom. You're a teenage girl from Oklahoma. You're wearing this homemade spaghetti strap dress, and you are standing in front of the most powerful men in th...
14 Kesä 23min

6609: Tracy Lawrence survived four gunshots and Nashville
Imagine you're a young musician. You've just finished recording the vocal tracks for your very first major label debut. So you're basically on top of the world. You're walking a high school friend bac...
14 Kesä 19min

6608: The Tragic Genius of Townes Van Zandt
Imagine an artist whose songs hit number one on the Billboard charts, like someone who is utterly idolized by Bob Dylan. But now, imagine that same artist living much of his adult life in this tin roo...
14 Kesä 19min

6607: The Tragic Cadillac Death of Hank Williams
And you are standing in a packed auditorium with maybe 3 ,000 other people. The Appalachian Mountains are just buried under this massive, blinding snowstorm. The kind of bitter, bone -chilling whiteou...
14 Kesä 44min

6606: The mountain soul of Patty Loveless
Think about the physical mechanics of a truly great vintage guitar. The wood has settled, the strings have been under all that tension for years. That stress and friction over decades is precisely wha...
14 Kesä 20min



















