Jim Reeves: The Velvet Voice That Outsold Elvis Overseas
Elton John once played his songs in smoky English pubs to win over crowds, and in South Africa he outsold Elvis Presley himself. Jim Reeves, the velvet-voiced Texas balladeer known as Gentleman Jim, b...
11 Jun 20min
DeFord Bailey: The Harmonica Wizard Who Named the Opry
He was the biggest draw on 1930s country music tours, packing canvas tents and roaring auditoriums — yet he was paid five dollars a show and had to sneak into hotels by the fire escape. DeFord Bailey,...
11 Jun 19min
Ray Price: The Man Who Invented the Country Shuffle
Ray Price wanted to be a Texas veterinarian, but he was too small to wrestle 1,500-pound cattle — so he changed the mathematical heartbeat of country music instead. The Texas honky-tonk legend invente...
11 Jun 19min
Lady A: The Messy Battle Over a Country Band's Rebrand
A haunted antebellum mansion, a 2006 Nashville photo shoot, and an offhand joke about a ghost gave one of country music's biggest trios its name — and planted a time bomb. Lady Antebellum's 2020 rebra...
11 Jun 19min
Jessi Colter: From Church Piano to Outlaw Country Queen
At 11 years old she was leading worship from a church piano in an Arizona Pentecostal congregation, her mother an ordained preacher. By the leather-clad 1970s, that same girl — born Miriam Johnson — h...
11 Jun 20min
Jason Aldean: Country Music's Most Polarizing Superstar
A Georgia kid taught himself guitar from chord charts his dad hand-drew on notebook paper — and grew up to become country music's most polarizing superstar. Jason Aldean's journey runs from DIY living...
11 Jun 21min
Moe Bandy: The Sheet Metal Worker Who Conquered Honky Tonk
Moe Bandy spent 12 years bending sheet metal by day before becoming one of honky tonk's most authentic voices. The factory worker turned country music star built a 1970s career on hard-edged drinking ...
11 Jun 17min
Orville Peck: The South African Punk Behind the Mask
A masked man with a booming bass-baritone stepped onto the country music stage and refused to show his face. Orville Peck, the South African-born former punk drummer behind the fringed mask, has becom...
11 Jun 21min
