Luke Bryan: The Tragedies Behind the Party Anthems
Luke Bryan wrote the soundtrack to a million carefree summer nights, but the king of country music party anthems built that beaming stadium persona on top of unthinkable family tragedy. Just as the Ge...
11 Jun 20min
Gary Stewart: The Tragic Forgotten King of Honky-Tonk
Time magazine crowned Gary Stewart the King of Honky Tonk, Bob Dylan was mesmerized by his sound, and the Allman Brothers counted him as a friend. Yet today the man with a number one Billboard country...
11 Jun 17min
Blake Shelton: The Trojan Horse of Country Music
A kid from Ada, Oklahoma whose signature song is about a prison dog named Ol' Red somehow became People's Sexiest Man Alive and married pop icon Gwen Stefani. Blake Shelton is one of modern country mu...
11 Jun 21min
Earl Scruggs: Three Fingers That Changed Banjo Forever
A 10-year-old boy storming off to his bedroom after a fight with his brother accidentally invented the three-finger roll that changed the banjo forever. Earl Scruggs took an instrument known as a come...
11 Jun 19min
David Allan Coe: The Outlaw Who Lived in a Hearse
A hearse pulls up outside Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 1967, and the man who steps out has been living in the back of it. David Allan Coe — ex-convict, street busker, and one of outlaw country musi...
11 Jun 25min
Turnpike Troubadours: The Band That Walked Away to Survive
What kind of band cancels everything — sold-out venues, Billboard chart success, a fiercely loyal fan base — and walks away indefinitely? The Turnpike Troubadours, the fiercely independent country ban...
11 Jun 18min
Tyler Childers: Reclaiming Country Music for Appalachia
When Tyler Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors and Awards, he stepped to the microphone and dismantled the very genre honoring him. The Kentucky-born country an...
11 Jun 19min
Webb Pierce: The Honky-Tonk King and His Guitar-Shaped Pool
He spent 113 weeks at number one on the country charts — a dominance no modern superstar has matched — yet Webb Pierce is best remembered for a $30,000 guitar-shaped swimming pool that sparked a neigh...
11 Jun 20min
