Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPorter Wagoner: From Butcher Shop Radio to a TV Empire
Episode 6511
Porter Wagoner began his country music career singing live radio broadcasts from inside a local butcher shop — and ended up as Nashville's most dazzl…
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The Cadillac Three: From Nashville Hit Factory to Southern Grit
Episode 6512
The Cadillac Three were Nashville's secret weapon — elite songwriters quietly crafting chart-topping country hits for superstars like Keith Urban, Ti…
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Linda Martell: The Country Trailblazer Nashville Tried to Erase
Episode 6513
Linda Martell made country music history as the first Black woman ever to perform at the Grand Ole Opry — then, at the peak of her ascent, the Nashvi…
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Sammi Smith: The Defiant Outlaw Who Sang the Forbidden Hit
Episode 6514
Sammi Smith dropped out of school at age 11 to sing in smoky Oklahoma nightclubs — and grew up to record the song Nashville was terrified to release.…
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Carrie Underwood: From Zoo Cages to Country's Biggest Voice
Episode 6515
Carrie Underwood walked away from a major record deal at 14 because she wanted to be practical — then spent her college years scooping animal pens at…
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Jim Reeves: The Velvet Voice That Outsold Elvis Overseas
Episode 6516
Elton John once played his songs in smoky English pubs to win over crowds, and in South Africa he outsold Elvis Presley himself. Jim Reeves, the velv…
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DeFord Bailey: The Harmonica Wizard Who Named the Opry
Episode 6517
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 s…
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Ray Price: The Man Who Invented the Country Shuffle
Episode 6518
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…
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Lady A: The Messy Battle Over a Country Band's Rebrand
Episode 6519
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 — an…
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Jessi Colter: From Church Piano to Outlaw Country Queen
Episode 6520
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-c…
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