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Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
The podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.
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20 of 35 episodesANNOUNCEMENT: Book Adaptation of Season 2
Season 2 has been adapted into a book from Simon & Schuster, available now
CR032/PH18 - Glenn
The end of one story is just the beginning of another.
CR031/PH17 - Choices: George Jones' Last Run
At least this whole story has a happy ending, right? Of course, whether or not that's true depends a lot on your personal definitions of bot...
CR030/PH16 - Another Lonely Song: The Tammy Wynette & George Richey Story
Oh, you thought Jones had a hard time dealing with George Richey? Imagine being married to the guy. Today we say one of the saddest and most...
CR029/PH15 - Hell Stays Open All Night Long: George Jones, Phase III
Oh, you're back to hear more things that will chill you to the bone? Then we can talk about what George Jones' life was like in the period l...
CR028/PH14 - Divorce/Death: He Stopped Loving Her Today, The Grand Tour & A Good Year for the Roses
It's a known fact that "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is the best and saddest country song of all time. But... is it?
CR027/PH13 - Billy Sherrill's Nashville Sound
What if the first serious opinions that millions of rock music fans formed about country music were based on a few massive errors which then...
CR026/PH12 - Loved It Away: Tammy Wynette, On Her Own
Following her breakup with George Jones, many people had many questions for Tammy Wynette. Well, they had questions for George, too, but he...
CR025/PH11 - Being Together: The George Jones & Tammy Wynette Story
Though they were married to each other for little more than five years, the legacies of George Jones and Tammy Wynette are forever inseparab...
CR024/PH10 - Stand by Your Man: The Anti-Feminist Manifesto
Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" is one of the most well-known recordings in the English language. It was also a plastic explosive detona...
CR023/PH09 - Loneliness Surrounds: Virginia Wynette Pugh
Country music is full of rags-to-riches stories, like the one about how Virginia Wynette Pugh became Tammy Wynette. In a way, it's true. Eve...
CR022/PH08 - Dallas Frazier: Can't Get There From Here
Some of the best songs you've ever heard were written by Dallas Frazier. Don't recognize the name? Don't worry. You'll remember it forever a...
CR021/PH07 - Pappy Daily, Gene Pitney and How George Jones Came to Be on Musicor
This whole story began with a pinball machine and jukebox mogul in Texas jumping over to the independent record business of the 1950s. When...
CR020/PH06 - All to Pieces: George Jones, Phase II
In the early 1960s, George Jones had a huge hit record featuring such a phenomenal vocal performance it instantly turned him into a living l...
CR019/PH05 - Wandering Soul: George Jones, Starday Recording Artist
There are some personalities who would embrace being called The Greatest Country Singer Ever or, at least, settle into the role once it beca...
CR018/PH04 - White Lightning
In North Carolina, way back in the hills, there's a centuries-old tradition of cooking illegal liquor. Whether you feel that's right or wron...
CR017/PH03 - The Nashville A Team
Now that we've established Owen Bradley as the single most important producer in the history of Nashville, let's take it further and acknowl...
CR016/PH02 – Owen Bradley's Nashville Sound
What if the first serious books about country music contained a few massive errors which were then repeated by nearly everyone who's since u...
CR015/PH01 - Starday Records: The Anti-Nashville Sound
The story of a little independent record label in Texas becoming "a force" in the Nashville country music industry brings an outsider's pers...