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OPRY RECAP: 02/25/1956

Liner Notes: Hearing the Hollywood Horizon

The Genesis of the Rhinestone West

Gene Autry Was Never A Cowboy

OPRY RECAP: BROADCAST No. 1,095

The Megawatt Empire - The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry - Pt 2

The Megawatt Empire — The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry

How a 1913 Folk Tune Became the 21st Century’s Unlikely Hit

The 1947 Hollywood Barn Dance - When the Studio System Found a West Coast Sound

OPRY RECAP: BROADCAST No 1,009

The Headline Hunters: Andrew Jenkins, Carson Robison, and the men who turned American disaster into country music - Pt 2

The Headline Hunters: Andrew Jenkins, Carson Robison, and the men who turned American disaster into country music - Pt 1

The Ghost Who Sold a Million Records

The Billionaire's Fiddle

OPRY RECAP: 07/11/1942

The Man Who Bought A Genre For Nothing Pt. 2

The Man Who Bought A Genre For Nothing Pt. 1

The "Horrible" Sound that Sparked a Billion-Dollar Industry

The 1940 Grand Ole Opry Feature Film-When Hollywood Came Lookin'

OPRY RECAP: JUNE 15th, 1957

Charley Pride's Permanent Tan

The Darkness at the End of the World

Country Music's Phil Spector

We are crossing 500 Subscribers and I have opened the Vault Doors.

The Plowboy that bought the Suburb

The King Without a Throne

Hillbillies In A Haunted House

The House that Buddy Built

The Street That God Forgot

Blood On The Claim

Cars Would Crash When She Walked By

ONE RECORD: Night Life - Ray Price (1962)

The Beautiful Mistake: How a Broken Transformer Gave the Devil His Sound.

The Morning Nashville Woke Up and Roger Miller Chose Pure Chaos.

She Was There When You Needed Her -- And Then She Was Gone.

The Holler That Heaven Built and a Toilet Killed

The Denver Sound. Wait, what?

The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy: On David Allan Coe, Character Acting, and What Nashville Doesn't Want to Admit

They Built it With A Square and Compass

The Cowboys from Hell.

The Last "Ahh Haaa"

The Last Joke Waylon Jennings Ever Told Buddy Holly

The Killer's Ranch.

The Killer and his wives.

What Killed the Honky Tonk Era? — And Who Profited From Its Death?

The Man the System Made.

When Bakersfield Got Quiet.

The Ballad of Merle Kilgore

The Last Night at Bobby Mackey's: A Final Walk Through America's Most Haunted Honky-Tonk

Bocephus Before the Fall: The Making (and Near-Unmaking) of Hank Williams Jr.

The Man Who "Fathered" Country Music Rode a Train to New York to Die Making Records

The Pill and the Road: Country Music's Long War With Drugs

The Medicine Man's Apprentice: What They Don't Tell You About Roy Acuff

“Play it again, I wanna hear the part where she dies.”

The Man in the Rhinestone Suit: Why Porter Wagoner Was Gothic Country Before Gothic Country Had a Name

The First Family of Country Music Had the Darkest Story in Country Music

The Cowboy Who Made a Horror Movie: Cowboy Jack Clement & Dear Dead Delilah