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Back to SearchLuke 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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Tyler Childers: Reclaiming Country Music for Appalachia
Episode 6531
When Tyler Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors and Awards, he stepped to the microphone and dismantled the ve…
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Webb Pierce: The Honky-Tonk King and His Guitar-Shaped Pool
Episode 6532
He spent 113 weeks at number one on the country charts — a dominance no modern superstar has matched — yet Webb Pierce is best remembered for a $30,0…
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Whitey Morgan: Outlaw Country Forged in Flint, Michigan
Episode 6533
Outlaw country music is supposed to come from the dusty plains of Texas or the neon honky-tonks of Tennessee. Whitey Morgan forged it instead in Flin…
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Amanda Shires: From a Pawn Shop Fiddle to The Highwomen
Episode 6534
A ten-year-old girl wanders a dusty pawn shop in Mineral Wells, Texas, and begs her dad for a cheap, unremarkable fiddle. That impulse buy launched A…
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