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Back to SearchJerry Jeff Walker: The New Yorker Who Invented Texas Outlaw Country
Episode 6501
A kid from upstate New York named Ronald went AWOL from the National Guard, wrote one of the most covered songs in American history, then walked away…
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John Anderson: From Roofing the Opry to Country Music Legend
Episode 6502
He was a Florida teenager blasting Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones — then became one of the most unmistakable voices in new traditionalist countr…
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K.T. Oslin: From Jingle Singer to CMA History at Age 45
Episode 6503
She was singing hemorrhoid-medication jingles on national television in her 30s — then at age 45 became the first woman ever to win the CMA Song of t…
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Kathy Mattea: Red Ribbons, Risk, and Reclaiming Her Voice
Episode 6504
Every star at the 1992 CMA Awards wore the industry-approved green ribbon — Kathy Mattea walked out wearing three red ones for AIDS awareness, honori…
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Keith Urban: The Country Outsider Who Went Yacht Rock
Episode 6505
Nashville's most decorated country superstar is about to release an album of smooth 1970s-inspired yacht rock — and the pivot only makes sense once y…
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Marty Robbins: Country Star, Fuzz Pioneer, NASCAR Daredevil
Episode 6506
A Grammy-winning cowboy balladeer who accidentally invented the fuzz guitar sound that helped shape rock and roll — then deliberately crashed a magen…
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The Oak Ridge Boys: From the Manhattan Project to Elvira
Episode 6507
In 1943, behind the barbed wire and armed checkpoints of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a country gospel harmony group sang for the scientists secretly buildi…
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Parker McCollum: The Limestone Kid Who Conquered Nashville
Episode 6508
A kid sweating on a Limestone County cattle ranch with only George Strait on the truck radio for company grew up to sweep the 2026 ACM Album of the Y…
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Rissi Palmer: The Country Girl Nashville Tried to Repackage
Episode 6509
At 19, Rissi Palmer sat across from R&B royalty Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis — the architects of Janet Jackson's biggest hits — and walked away from a m…
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Sierra Hull: The Mandolin Prodigy Who Escaped the Prodigy Trap
Episode 6510
Sierra Hull shouldered a hundred-year-old bluegrass tradition before she was old enough to drive. The mandolin prodigy self-released her first CD at …
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