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The podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.
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The end of one story is just the beginning of another.
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...
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...
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...
It's a known fact that "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is the best and saddest country song of all time. But... is it?
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...
Following her breakup with George Jones, many people had many questions for Tammy Wynette. Well, they had questions for George, too, but he...
Though they were married to each other for little more than five years, the legacies of George Jones and Tammy Wynette are forever inseparab...
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...
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...
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...
This whole story began with a pinball machine and jukebox mogul in Texas jumping over to the independent record business of the 1950s. When...
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...
There are some personalities who would embrace being called The Greatest Country Singer Ever or, at least, settle into the role once it beca...
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...
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...
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...
The story of a little independent record label in Texas becoming "a force" in the Nashville country music industry brings an outsider's pers...
You might think, "How could anyone finish a season of a podcast like Cocaine & Rhinestones and have questions? That guy saturates every epis...
The legendary pedal steel guitarist, Ralph Mooney, deserves the reputation he earned on his instrument. However, he deserves a lot more than...
Rusty & Doug come from a long tradition of surviving against the odds, against a world that would just as soon see you dead as see you succe...
Some people think we have all these "authenticity tests" in country music. We don't. But, even if we did, Wynonna would pass them. From some...
Words often fail to express the connection that can exist between two people. In the friendship of Don Rich and Buck Owens, our notions of r...
Whatever else is true about Buck Owens (and some of it certainly is), he brought hard country music to the world in a time when we desperate...
Behind any story worth telling, you'll always find another story. Maybe if we can get behind some of Tom T. Hall's best stories, we'll find...
Jeannie C. Riley's debut single sold over a million copies within ten days of being released but she never wanted to record the song. In the...
You think all it takes to make a hit record is to find a good song and get a good performance of it? That's cute. Have a seat and let an old...
The way Charlie and Ira Louvin could sing together is downright otherworldly. There's even a special term we had to invent for family (it's...
The song was just what so many Americans needed at the time, in 1969. Conservatives needed someone to stand up and defend small town, tradit...
In 1967, Bobbie Gentry's recording of a song she wrote, called "Ode to Billie Joe," directly influenced the future of every major musical ge...
Spade Cooley came to California in the early 1930s, as poor as everyone else who did the exact same thing at the exact same time. Only, Spad...
This episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones briefly examines the history of contraceptive laws in America (Trigger Warning: abortion is discussed)...
Everyone loves Ernest Tubb. So when he straps on a gun belt one night to head across town and snuff out a character named Jim Denny, well, y...