DeFord Bailey: The Harmonica Wizard Who Named the Opry
He was the biggest draw on 1930s country music tours, packing canvas tents and roaring auditoriums — yet he was paid five dollars a show and had to sneak into hotels by the fire escape. DeFord Bailey,...
11 Juni 19min
Ray Price: The Man Who Invented the Country Shuffle
Ray Price wanted to be a Texas veterinarian, but he was too small to wrestle 1,500-pound cattle — so he changed the mathematical heartbeat of country music instead. The Texas honky-tonk legend invente...
11 Juni 19min
Lady A: The Messy Battle Over a Country Band's Rebrand
A haunted antebellum mansion, a 2006 Nashville photo shoot, and an offhand joke about a ghost gave one of country music's biggest trios its name — and planted a time bomb. Lady Antebellum's 2020 rebra...
11 Juni 19min
Jessi Colter: From Church Piano to Outlaw Country Queen
At 11 years old she was leading worship from a church piano in an Arizona Pentecostal congregation, her mother an ordained preacher. By the leather-clad 1970s, that same girl — born Miriam Johnson — h...
11 Juni 20min
Jason Aldean: Country Music's Most Polarizing Superstar
A Georgia kid taught himself guitar from chord charts his dad hand-drew on notebook paper — and grew up to become country music's most polarizing superstar. Jason Aldean's journey runs from DIY living...
11 Juni 21min
Moe Bandy: The Sheet Metal Worker Who Conquered Honky Tonk
Moe Bandy spent 12 years bending sheet metal by day before becoming one of honky tonk's most authentic voices. The factory worker turned country music star built a 1970s career on hard-edged drinking ...
11 Juni 17min
Orville Peck: The South African Punk Behind the Mask
A masked man with a booming bass-baritone stepped onto the country music stage and refused to show his face. Orville Peck, the South African-born former punk drummer behind the fringed mask, has becom...
11 Juni 21min
Don Gibson: The Stuttering Boy Who Wrote Country Gold
Don Gibson dropped out of school in the second grade because a paralyzing stutter left him unable to speak. That silenced North Carolina kid grew up to become country music's "sad poet," writing some ...
11 Juni 17min
