Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWillie Nelson and the Outlaw Rebellion: The Ghostwriter Who Beat Nashville and the IRS
Episode 6571
Before he was a Highwayman and a household name, Willie Nelson was a broke Nashville songwriter selling future classics for pocket change, including …
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Dierks Bentley: Banned From the Opry, Then Made a Member
Episode 6487
He snuck past security at the Grand Ole Opry, got slapped with a permanent trespassing ban — and years later that same institution made him a member.…
1 week, 4 days ago
Billy Joe Shaver: The Outlaw Poet Who Lived Every Word
Episode 6486
He lost his fingers in a sawmill, survived a heart attack on stage, and shot a man outside a Texas saloon — then wrote some of the most poetic songs …
1 week, 4 days ago
Faron Young: The Young Sheriff's Ashes on Johnny Cash's Lawn
Episode 6488
His family waited until Johnny Cash was out of town, snuck onto the grounds of his Old Hickory Lake home, and scattered Faron Young's ashes across th…
1 week, 4 days ago
Flatland Cavalry: From College Roommates to Interscope
Episode 6489
It started as an excuse to hang out, drink a few beers, and jam between classes — and a decade later that weekend hobby became a major record deal wi…
1 week, 4 days ago
Gene Watson: The Houston Mechanic With Five Number One Hits
Episode 6490
By day he pounded dents out of steel bumpers in a sweltering Houston auto body shop; by night he was a neon-lit honky-tonk sensation. Gene Watson tur…
1 week, 4 days ago
Hailey Whitters: The Corn Queen Strategy That Beat Nashville
Episode 6491
Forget the overnight-sensation myth — Hailey Whitters ground it out in Nashville for over a decade before doubling down on the most specific thing ab…
1 week, 4 days ago
Alabama: 75 Million Records, 40 Number Ones, One Bitter Lawsuit
Episode 6492
They sold 75 million records, scored more than 40 number one hits, and rewrote the rules of country music — all while critics thrashed them in the pr…
1 week, 4 days ago
Flatt and Scruggs: How Bob Dylan Broke Bluegrass's Greatest Duo
Episode 6493
At the peak of their fame — Grammy Awards, a chart-topping TV theme song, two decades of defining bluegrass — Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs walked aw…
1 week, 4 days ago
Bobby Bare: The Hitmaker Who Broke Every Nashville Rule
Episode 6494
He wrote and sang a hit rock and roll record — then watched another man's name go on the label while he served in the Army. Bobby Bare, born in 1935 …
1 week, 4 days ago