6572: Amanda Shires From Pawn Shop to Highwomen
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 Juni 20min
6611: 6611: Why Ralph Stanley Refused to Modernize
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 Juni 26min
Asleep at the Wheel and Western Swing: The Band That Kept a Dying Genre Alive
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 Juni 21min
Blaze Foley, the Duct Tape Messiah: The Cult Songwriter Country Almost Lost
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 Juni 20min
Charley Crockett and the Cow Valve Heart: The Busker Turned Anti-Industry Country Star
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 Juni 14min
Dale Watson and the Ameripolitan Rebellion: The Outlaw Who Built His Own Genre
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 Juni 20min
From Hollywood Extra to Shakey Graves: How Alejandro Rose-Garcia Reinvented Himself
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 Juni 20min
George Strait Made Nashville Bend: The King of Country They Told to Go Design Cattle Pens
George Strait has 60 number one hits, more than Michael Jackson or Madonna, and sits behind only Elvis and the Beatles in gold and platinum albums. Yet in the late 1970s, nearly every record executive...
13 Juni 19min
