The Country Music Book of the Dead

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Gene Autry Was Never A Cowboy
He never worked a ranch, never met Will Rogers the way he claimed, and got his cowboy hat from a Chicago radio station's PR department.
10 hrs ago • Zachariah Malachi
OPRY RECAP: BROADCAST No. 1,095
Cowboy Copas Takes the Helm, Jimmy C. Newman Guests, Hank Garland Picks "Caravan," and Archie Campbell Brings Bull's Gap Humor to the Ryman
Jul 26 • Zachariah Malachi
The Megawatt Empire - The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry - Pt 2
Semester 1 / Cluster 3: The Birth of the Airwave Empire (WSM & The Grand Ole Opry)
Jul 24 • Zachariah Malachi
The Megawatt Empire — The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
Semester 1 / Cluster 3: The Birth of the Airwave Empire (WSM & The Grand Ole Opry)
Jul 23 • Zachariah Malachi
How a 1913 Folk Tune Became the 21st Century’s Unlikely Hit
Dick Burnett, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Ralph Stanley, George Clooney and the Real-World-Genesis of "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Jul 21 • Zachariah Malachi
The 1947 Hollywood Barn Dance - When the Studio System Found a West Coast Sound
Featuring: Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadours, Jack Guthrie, and Jimmy & Leon Short
Jul 20 • Zachariah Malachi
OPRY RECAP: BROADCAST No 1,009
Hank Snow Host Duty, Carl Butler's East Tennessee Heartbreak, Archie's Tax Troubles, and Cousin Minnie's Valentine Mischief
Jul 19 • Zachariah Malachi
The Headline Hunters: Andrew Jenkins, Carson Robison, and the men who turned American disaster into country music - Pt 2
Semester 1: Cluster 2: The Commercial Big Bang & The Extraction of the Twang (1920s)
Jul 17 • Zachariah Malachi
The Headline Hunters: Andrew Jenkins, Carson Robison, and the men who turned American disaster into country music - Pt 1
Semester 1: Cluster 2: The Commercial Big Bang & The Extraction of the Twang (1920s)
Jul 15 • Zachariah Malachi
The Ghost Who Sold a Million Records
Vernon Dalhart and the record that built the country music industry
Jul 14 • Zachariah Malachi
The Billionaire's Fiddle
Henry Ford, the Jazz Age, and a culture war fought with square dancing
Jul 12 • Zachariah Malachi
OPRY RECAP: 07/11/1942
ON THIS DAY in 1942 - John Daniel & His Quartet Bring the House Down with Harmonized Joy
Jul 12 • Zachariah Malachi
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