
6589: Jelly Roll s impossible path to redemption
I want you to imagine, just for a second, looking at a resume that seems, well, completely physically impossible. So you are holding two pieces of paper. And on the first page, you're reading the prof...
14 Juni 18min

6588: How Survivor Guilt Forged Outlaw Country
It's the early hours of February 3rd, 1959. The middle of this absolutely freezing winter tour in the Midwest. And you have this young, exhausted bass player who is just shivering on a tour bus. And h...
14 Juni 19min

6587: How Kris Kristofferson became a Nashville janitor
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 Juni 22min

6586: How Faith Hill Conquered Country and Pop
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 Juni 22min

6584: Guy Clark and the Handmade Song
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 Juni 19min

6583: Gram Parsons and the Joshua Tree Fire
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 Juni 21min

6582: George Jones and the Voice of Heartbreak
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 Juni 20min

6581: From Secret Son to Country Icon
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 Juni 21min



















