
6597: Rosanne Cash Beyond the Man in Black
Imagine your dad is Johnny Cash. You're just starting to figure out who you are, what you care about, and what you actually want to do with your life. But she doesn't just walk up to a microphone and ...
14 Jun 18min

6596: Rodney Crowell Breaking the Nashville Mold
Imagine you are an artist, right. You've just poured absolutely everything, I mean every ounce of your sweat, your creative energy, your lived experience into a brand new album. So you take those mast...
14 Jun 20min

6595: Patsy Cline and the Sound of Survival
Usually when we think of like a Hollywood tragedy, we picture something meticulously scripted. Like a room full of writers, engineering, maximum devastation. But I want you to picture a scene that is ...
14 Jun 47min

6594: Mickey Guyton and the Nashville Truth
Imagine, for just a second, being undeniably gifted. Like, you have a voice so powerful it literally stops traffic. Right, like a true generational talent. And you've worked for years, you're scraping...
14 Jun 19min

6593: Mark Chesnutt versus the Nashville machine
Imagine for a second you're a master chef, like a total purist. And you finally win your absolute biggest award. But you get it for microwaving a hot dog. Oh man, that would be soul crushing. He becam...
14 Jun 14min

6592: Lainey Wilson outlasted Nashville in a camper
In 2023, Taylor Swift's record as like the last woman to win country music's top honor was finally shattered. Which was a huge deal in the industry. It wasn't broken by some music industry insider or ...
14 Jun 19min

6591: John Prine From Mailman to Songwriting Legend
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

6590: Jo Dee Messina outlasted the music machine
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



















