Flatt and Scruggs: How Bob Dylan Broke Bluegrass's Greatest Duo
At the peak of their fame — Grammy Awards, a chart-topping TV theme song, two decades of defining bluegrass — Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs walked away from each other. The greatest duo in bluegrass a...
11 Jun 20min
Bobby Bare: The Hitmaker Who Broke Every Nashville Rule
He wrote and sang a hit rock and roll record — then watched another man's name go on the label while he served in the Army. Bobby Bare, born in 1935 in Ironton, Ohio, turned that Twilight Zone beginni...
11 Jun 19min
Brad Paisley: From Mud on the Tires to Calls with Zelensky
He's the cowboy-hat guy singing about mud on the tires of his pickup truck — and the country star who got on a video call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to fund war rebuilding efforts. Br...
11 Jun 21min
Chris Stapleton: 1,000 Songs Before the Spotlight
In 1996 he was a biomedical engineering student at Vanderbilt University. Today he's a heavily bearded outlaw country superstar with a diamond-certified record who sang the national anthem at the Supe...
11 Jun 20min
Eric Church: The Outlaw Who Got Fired Into Stardom
He landed the golden ticket of country music — opening for Rascal Flatts on a massive stadium tour — and got fired for playing too loud and too long. Eric Church turned that firing into the founding m...
11 Jun 18min
Maggie Rose: From Tomato Gate to Grammy Nominations
She started at 16 belting Bruce Springsteen covers in a tribute band, spent a decade inside Nashville's tightly controlled country radio machine, and finally earned Grammy nominations by throwing out ...
11 Jun 19min
Sturgill Simpson: The Grammy Winner Who Torched His Own Name
He won a Grammy for country music, then handed his major label a sleazy synth-rock album paired with a dystopian Japanese anime film on Netflix — and walked away leaving a million dollars in unrecoupe...
11 Jun 21min
Whiskey Myers: From Texas Dive Bars to Yellowstone Fame
Their founding bass player didn't even know how to play the instrument, and they spent eleven years grinding dingy Texas dive bars — then a cowboy soap opera turned Whiskey Myers into an overnight glo...
11 Jun 18min
