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So you're sitting in a small kind of smoky club in New York City called The Bitter End. Up on stage is a guy who just a few months prior was spending his days trudging through the snow delivering mail...

14 Jun 17min

I want you to picture the year 1996. You've just released an absolute smash hit, a song called Heads Carolina, Tails California. You are suddenly in such high demand to the point where you perform an ...

14 Jun 20min

I want you to imagine, just for a second, looking at a resume that seems, well, completely physically impossible. So you are holding two pieces of paper. And on the first page, you're reading the prof...

14 Jun 18min

It's the early hours of February 3rd, 1959. The middle of this absolutely freezing winter tour in the Midwest. And you have this young, exhausted bass player who is just shivering on a tour bus. And h...

14 Jun 19min

I want you to imagine a guy with a resume so impossibly perfect. It honestly sounds like, well, like a mid -century fiction writer just made it up. It's almost cartoonish how perfect it is. I mean, we...

14 Jun 22min

A 19 -year -old girl raised in a devoutly Christian home in a tiny Mississippi town decides she's just, well, she's had enough of college. She drops out, packs up her life, and moves to Nashville with...

14 Jun 22min

Usually, when we talk about a musical pioneer, there's this expectation of a lasting, tangible monument. Right, like a statue in a hometown square. Exactly, or a sprawling museum exhibit, just somethi...

14 Jun 19min

You are standing in the middle of the California desert, right out in the Joshua Tree National Monument. The sun is just baking the scrub brush. The sky is that endless stark blue. He wanted it to be ...

14 Jun 21min