6620: How Emmylou Harris Invented Americana Music
Before the term Americana existed as a genre, Emmylou Harris was already living it. She took the raw materials of country, folk, rock, and bluegrass and wove them into something that didn't fit any ra...
14 Juni 22min
6619: How Deana Carter Shattered Nashville's Glass Ceiling
Deana Carter's debut album went five-times platinum, a feat that would seem to guarantee a long, celebrated career in Nashville. Instead, it became a cautionary tale about how the industry treats wome...
14 Juni 18min
6618: How Colter Wall Bypassed Nashville Entirely
Colter Wall sounds like he was born in a different century. His impossibly deep baritone and sparse acoustic arrangements feel more 1890s cattle drive than 2020s streaming playlist, and that anachroni...
14 Juni 18min
6617: How Ashley McBryde Beat the Nashville Machine
Ashley McBryde spent years driving between dive bars across Arkansas and the South, playing for gas money and sleeping in her car. Nashville had no interest in a stocky, plainspoken woman who wrote so...
14 Juni 17min
6616: From Navy Barracks to Michigan Stadium: The Kid Rock Story
Before Kid Rock became one of the most polarizing figures in American music, he was a kid from a small Michigan town with an outsized ambition and no clear lane to drive in. His path from Navy barrack...
14 Juni 20min
6615: How Crystal Gayle Escaped Loretta Lynn's Shadow
Crystal Gayle had everything working against her from the start. As Loretta Lynn's youngest sister, she entered the music industry with a famous last name and an impossible comparison. Every stage she...
14 Juni 20min
6614: Cody Jinks and the Long Road from Thrash Metal to Country Stardom
Before Cody Jinks sold out arenas as a country artist, he was the frontman of a thrash metal band called Unchecked Aggression. That whiplash-inducing career pivot sounds like a punchline, but it's act...
14 Juni 20min
6613: Billy Strings and the Collision of Heavy Metal and Bluegrass
Billy Strings doesn't look or sound like any bluegrass musician you've seen before. Covered in tattoos and raised on a volatile diet of metal, punk, and traditional picking, he fused genres that suppo...
14 Juni 17min
