Blake Shelton: The Trojan Horse of Country Music
A kid from Ada, Oklahoma whose signature song is about a prison dog named Ol' Red somehow became People's Sexiest Man Alive and married pop icon Gwen Stefani. Blake Shelton is one of modern country mu...
11 Juni 21min
Earl Scruggs: Three Fingers That Changed Banjo Forever
A 10-year-old boy storming off to his bedroom after a fight with his brother accidentally invented the three-finger roll that changed the banjo forever. Earl Scruggs took an instrument known as a come...
11 Juni 19min
David Allan Coe: The Outlaw Who Lived in a Hearse
A hearse pulls up outside Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 1967, and the man who steps out has been living in the back of it. David Allan Coe — ex-convict, street busker, and one of outlaw country musi...
11 Juni 25min
Turnpike Troubadours: The Band That Walked Away to Survive
What kind of band cancels everything — sold-out venues, Billboard chart success, a fiercely loyal fan base — and walks away indefinitely? The Turnpike Troubadours, the fiercely independent country ban...
11 Juni 18min
Tyler Childers: Reclaiming Country Music for Appalachia
When Tyler Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors and Awards, he stepped to the microphone and dismantled the very genre honoring him. The Kentucky-born country an...
11 Juni 19min
Webb Pierce: The Honky-Tonk King and His Guitar-Shaped Pool
He spent 113 weeks at number one on the country charts — a dominance no modern superstar has matched — yet Webb Pierce is best remembered for a $30,000 guitar-shaped swimming pool that sparked a neigh...
11 Juni 20min
Whitey Morgan: Outlaw Country Forged in Flint, Michigan
Outlaw country music is supposed to come from the dusty plains of Texas or the neon honky-tonks of Tennessee. Whitey Morgan forged it instead in Flint, Michigan, turning rust-belt, blue-collar grit in...
11 Juni 17min
Amanda Shires: From a Pawn Shop Fiddle to The Highwomen
A ten-year-old girl wanders a dusty pawn shop in Mineral Wells, Texas, and begs her dad for a cheap, unremarkable fiddle. That impulse buy launched Amanda Shires, the fiddle prodigy and singer-songwri...
11 Juni 20min
