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I want you to imagine a guy with a resume so impossibly perfect. It honestly sounds like, well, like a mid -century fiction writer just made it up. It's almost cartoonish how perfect it is. I mean, we...

14 Jun 22min

A 19 -year -old girl raised in a devoutly Christian home in a tiny Mississippi town decides she's just, well, she's had enough of college. She drops out, packs up her life, and moves to Nashville with...

14 Jun 22min

Usually, when we talk about a musical pioneer, there's this expectation of a lasting, tangible monument. Right, like a statue in a hometown square. Exactly, or a sprawling museum exhibit, just somethi...

14 Jun 19min

You are standing in the middle of the California desert, right out in the Joshua Tree National Monument. The sun is just baking the scrub brush. The sky is that endless stark blue. He wanted it to be ...

14 Jun 21min

He's so desperate for a drink that after his wife hides all the car keys, he just wanders out into the garage. And fires up a 10 horsepower riding lawnmower. And he chugs eight miles down a Texas high...

14 Jun 20min

Imagine you're an 11 year old boy, right. You're living in Delhi, Louisiana. And you're just rummaging through your mom's closet. Like any kid looking for spare change to buy candy. But the Willy Wonk...

14 Jun 21min

Imagine, imagine telling a record executive in 1966 that your new band's business plan is to completely ignore electric guitars. Like instead of plugging in, you tell them you're going to play the kaz...

14 Jun 20min

You're working the door at a local bar in North Carolina. Just checking IDs and breaking up fights. And your career plan is to study criminal justice because your ultimate goal is to become a homicide...

14 Jun 17min