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I want you to picture a recording studio. Standing right in front of the microphone is this 13 -year -old girl. She is there to record this really bouncy, infectious holiday tune. Right, basically jus...

14 Jun 19min

I want you to imagine just for a second, releasing a song so massive that it literally, it breaks the ceiling of its own genre. Oh yeah, like totally shatters it. Picture a track that becomes the firs...

14 Jun 19min

Imagine an artist who is just so dominant, so fundamentally woven into the fabric of American music that he held the record for the most number one hits across two entire decades. A literal titan of t...

14 Jun 19min

Imagine a five -year -old kid picking up a mandolin for the very first time. He's hanging out in a California pizza joint called that Pizza Place. Just a regular kid in a noisy local restaurant absorb...

14 Jun 17min

I want you to picture this scene, OK. And we were standing inside Olympia Stadium. And it is absolutely packed to the rafters. After his discharge in 1958, he kept trying. He secured tryouts with the ...

14 Jun 21min

Picture a massive global country music icon, the kind of artist who completely revolutionizes a genre. Right, like someone who racks up 21 number one hits. And, you know, gets invited to play for the ...

14 Jun 19min

So I want you to picture this scene. And there's this 10 -year -old girl wandering around a dusty pawn shop in mineral wells. like a blistering hot small town in West Texas. So she's just killing time...

14 Jun 20min

So I want you to just imagine for a second that you are 75 years old. And you've been grounding away, like truly grinding in your chosen profession for more than half a century. You've seen the absolu...

14 Jun 26min