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Willie 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.…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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