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Back to SearchJason Aldean: Country Music's Most Polarizing Superstar
Episode 6521
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 sup…
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Moe Bandy: The Sheet Metal Worker Who Conquered Honky Tonk
Episode 6522
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 musi…
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Orville Peck: The South African Punk Behind the Mask
Episode 6523
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 for…
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Don Gibson: The Stuttering Boy Who Wrote Country Gold
Episode 6524
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 …
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Luke Bryan: The Tragedies Behind the Party Anthems
Episode 6525
Luke Bryan wrote the soundtrack to a million carefree summer nights, but the king of country music party anthems built that beaming stadium persona o…
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Gary Stewart: The Tragic Forgotten King of Honky-Tonk
Episode 6526
Time magazine crowned Gary Stewart the King of Honky Tonk, Bob Dylan was mesmerized by his sound, and the Allman Brothers counted him as a friend. Ye…
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Blake Shelton: The Trojan Horse of Country Music
Episode 6527
A kid from Ada, Oklahoma whose signature song is about a prison dog named Ol' Red somehow became People's Sexiest Man Alive and married pop icon Gwen…
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Earl Scruggs: Three Fingers That Changed Banjo Forever
Episode 6528
A 10-year-old boy storming off to his bedroom after a fight with his brother accidentally invented the three-finger roll that changed the banjo forev…
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David Allan Coe: The Outlaw Who Lived in a Hearse
Episode 6529
A hearse pulls up outside Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 1967, and the man who steps out has been living in the back of it. David Allan Coe — ex-con…
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Turnpike Troubadours: The Band That Walked Away to Survive
Episode 6530
What kind of band cancels everything — sold-out venues, Billboard chart success, a fiercely loyal fan base — and walks away indefinitely? The Turnpik…
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