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Back to SearchBrad Paisley: From Mud on the Tires to Calls with Zelensky
Episode 6495
He's the cowboy-hat guy singing about mud on the tires of his pickup truck — and the country star who got on a video call with Ukrainian President Vo…
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Chris Stapleton: 1,000 Songs Before the Spotlight
Episode 6496
In 1996 he was a biomedical engineering student at Vanderbilt University. Today he's a heavily bearded outlaw country superstar with a diamond-certif…
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Eric Church: The Outlaw Who Got Fired Into Stardom
Episode 6497
He landed the golden ticket of country music — opening for Rascal Flatts on a massive stadium tour — and got fired for playing too loud and too long.…
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Maggie Rose: From Tomato Gate to Grammy Nominations
Episode 6498
She started at 16 belting Bruce Springsteen covers in a tribute band, spent a decade inside Nashville's tightly controlled country radio machine, and…
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Sturgill Simpson: The Grammy Winner Who Torched His Own Name
Episode 6499
He won a Grammy for country music, then handed his major label a sleazy synth-rock album paired with a dystopian Japanese anime film on Netflix — and…
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Whiskey Myers: From Texas Dive Bars to Yellowstone Fame
Episode 6500
Their founding bass player didn't even know how to play the instrument, and they spent eleven years grinding dingy Texas dive bars — then a cowboy so…
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Jerry 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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