6635: How Miranda Lambert Beat Nashville at Its Own Game
Miranda Lambert walked into Nashville as a teenager with a chip on her shoulder and a voice that could strip paint. She was louder, angrier, and more confrontational than the format wanted its women t...
14 Jun 18min
6634: How Mary Chapin Carpenter Shattered Nashville's Formula
Mary Chapin Carpenter was a Ivy League-educated journalist's daughter from the DC suburbs who somehow became a country music star. She didn't look the part, didn't sound the part, and wrote songs that...
14 Jun 19min
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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 19min
