Kathy Mattea: Red Ribbons, Risk, and Reclaiming Her Voice
Every star at the 1992 CMA Awards wore the industry-approved green ribbon — Kathy Mattea walked out wearing three red ones for AIDS awareness, honoring three friends she had lost. In the deeply conser...
11 Juni 18min
Keith Urban: The Country Outsider Who Went Yacht Rock
Nashville's most decorated country superstar is about to release an album of smooth 1970s-inspired yacht rock — and the pivot only makes sense once you realize Keith Urban was never the Nashville insi...
11 Juni 18min
Marty Robbins: Country Star, Fuzz Pioneer, NASCAR Daredevil
A Grammy-winning cowboy balladeer who accidentally invented the fuzz guitar sound that helped shape rock and roll — then deliberately crashed a magenta race car into a wall at nearly 200 mph to save a...
11 Juni 21min
The Oak Ridge Boys: From the Manhattan Project to Elvira
In 1943, behind the barbed wire and armed checkpoints of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a country gospel harmony group sang for the scientists secretly building the atomic bomb. That Manhattan Project gig gave...
11 Juni 21min
Parker McCollum: The Limestone Kid Who Conquered Nashville
A kid sweating on a Limestone County cattle ranch with only George Strait on the truck radio for company grew up to sweep the 2026 ACM Album of the Year award. Parker McCollum — the Limestone Kid — tu...
11 Juni 16min
Rissi Palmer: The Country Girl Nashville Tried to Repackage
At 19, Rissi Palmer sat across from R&B royalty Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis — the architects of Janet Jackson's biggest hits — and walked away from a massive record deal because they wanted to strip out...
11 Juni 18min
Sierra Hull: The Mandolin Prodigy Who Escaped the Prodigy Trap
Sierra Hull shouldered a hundred-year-old bluegrass tradition before she was old enough to drive. The mandolin prodigy self-released her first CD at age 10, signed with Rounder Records at 13, and was ...
11 Juni 15min
Porter Wagoner: From Butcher Shop Radio to a TV Empire
Porter Wagoner began his country music career singing live radio broadcasts from inside a local butcher shop — and ended up as Nashville's most dazzling television showman. With rhinestone-covered Nud...
11 Juni 19min
