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Before inventing a genre that didn't have a name, this artist spent their days teaching five-year-olds their ABCs. The jump from kindergarten classroom to creating folkabilly—a raucous fusion of folk ...

14 Jun 19min

Midland didn't emerge from the Texas honky-tonk circuit or a Nashville writer's room. The band's origins trace back to the fashion and modeling world—a background so improbable for a country act that ...

14 Jun 18min

Before becoming one of country music's most compelling storytellers, this artist was standing in front of a classroom teaching English literature. The transition from grading papers to writing chart-t...

14 Jun 22min

Keith Whitley had the purest country voice of his generation—a tone so natural and emotionally transparent that it made everything around it sound processed by comparison. He was also fighting an addi...

14 Jun 18min

Terri Clark moved to Nashville as a teenager and spent years singing for tips at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, the legendary bar next to the Ryman Auditorium. She was a hat-wearing, boot-stomping Canadian ...

14 Jun 18min

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 Jun 17min

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 Jun 16min

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 Jun 21min