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I want you to picture this scene, OK. And we were standing inside Olympia Stadium. And it is absolutely packed to the rafters. After his discharge in 1958, he kept trying. He secured tryouts with the ...

14 Jun 21min

Picture a massive global country music icon, the kind of artist who completely revolutionizes a genre. Right, like someone who racks up 21 number one hits. And, you know, gets invited to play for the ...

14 Jun 19min

So I want you to picture this scene. And there's this 10 -year -old girl wandering around a dusty pawn shop in mineral wells. like a blistering hot small town in West Texas. So she's just killing time...

14 Jun 20min

So I want you to just imagine for a second that you are 75 years old. And you've been grounding away, like truly grinding in your chosen profession for more than half a century. You've seen the absolu...

14 Jun 26min

Picture a packed venue around 1970, the crowd buzzing for shock-rock pioneer Alice Cooper and blues-rockers Hot Tuna. Then the opening act walks out: a full Western swing band with fiddles, pedal stee...

13 Jun 21min

It begins in a Texas graveyard, with a casket wrapped entirely in silver duct tape and a small group of ragged mourners. Later, in the dead of night, a band of musicians led by Townes Van Zandt return...

13 Jun 20min

Charley Crockett learned guitar busking on street corners for survival, going twelve years without really knowing what a chord was. He has a cow valve keeping his blood pumping after open-heart surger...

13 Jun 14min

On the edge of launching his debut, most artists play it safe. Dale Watson did the opposite, taking a loud, public swing at the very center of his own industry. He later wrote a concept album about lo...

13 Jun 20min