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The Closest Look at Col. Tom Parker
A big file on Colonel Tom Parker, the man who managed Elvis Presley for twenty-two years and never once let anybody look at him
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The Uncommon Wife
Every obituary says George Jones had four wives. Her own sister says five.
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Dolly Parton Before Dolly Parton
The Dolly Parton records that no one remembers.
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Two and a Half Seconds
Jim Denny, Jack DeWitt, and the year the Grand Ole Opry split in two
Oct 15
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Sock Puppet Therapy
Soothing Faron Young’s Temper
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Cars Would Crash When She Walked By
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The Morning Nashville Woke Up and Roger Miller Chose Pure Chaos.
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The Last Joke Waylon Jennings Ever Told Buddy Holly
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The Saddest Country Song of All Time is a Suicide Letter.
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Long Live The King
September 13th, 1984 - The day Ronald Reagan came to Roy Acuff’s Birthday Celebration
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The Possum’s Trail of Destruction:
Inside George Jones’s Wild Starday Years and Office Rampages
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A Day in the Life of a Boy named Hiram “Hank” Williams
Greenville, Alabama, 1935
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The Man Behind the “Dixie Dewdrop”
The Ballad of Uncle Dave Macon
Sep 27
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The Night That Willie Nelson Laid Down To Die
By the time most people think of Willie Nelson, they’re picturing the braids, the joint, the beat-up guitar named Trigger — the whole Red-Headed…
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Two Men in Black
The Chaos, Comedy, and Brotherhood of Johnny Cash and Merle Kilgore
Sep 21
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The Second Microphone
Johnny Paycheck's sideman years. George Jones, Ray Price, Faron Young, the Bakersfield connection, and the name that finally stuck.
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The Ohio Kid
Donald Eugene Lytle, Greenfield, the brig, and four Decca singles under a name nobody remembers.
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LET’S GET, LET’S GET TAMMY WYNETTE
How a Bizarre 1978 “Kidnapping” Birthed a San Francisco Punk-Rock Punchline
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The Country Music Book of the Dead
A Love Letter to the Dark, Odd, Rare, Risque, Offbeat, Insane, and Horrifying Tales In Country Music History
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