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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

Picture a packed venue around 1970, the crowd buzzing for shock-rock pioneer Alice Cooper and blues-rockers Hot Tuna. Then the opening act walks out: a full Western swing band with fiddles, pedal stee...

13 Jun 21min

It begins in a Texas graveyard, with a casket wrapped entirely in silver duct tape and a small group of ragged mourners. Later, in the dead of night, a band of musicians led by Townes Van Zandt return...

13 Jun 20min

Charley Crockett learned guitar busking on street corners for survival, going twelve years without really knowing what a chord was. He has a cow valve keeping his blood pumping after open-heart surger...

13 Jun 14min

On the edge of launching his debut, most artists play it safe. Dale Watson did the opposite, taking a loud, public swing at the very center of his own industry. He later wrote a concept album about lo...

13 Jun 20min

Before he was Shakey Graves, Alejandro Rose-Garcia was grinding through Hollywood, saying yes to any part on the call sheet. His credits included Phone Repairman in the 2006 teen comedy Material Girls...

13 Jun 20min