BOOK NEWS: Signed Pre-Orders, Wayne White Art Giveaway & Sept. 14th Live Event in Nashville (00:03:19)
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Book Adaptation of Season 2 (00:00:56)
Season 2 has been adapted into a book from Simon & Schuster, available now
CR032/PH18 - Glenn (01:37:05)
The end of one story is just the beginning of another.
CR031/PH17 - Choices: George Jones' Last Run (02:44:41)
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 both "happy ending" and "whole story" but, either way, today we...
CR030/PH16 - Another Lonely Song: The Tammy Wynette & George Richey Story (02:20:03)
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 infuriating goodbyes we'll ever have to say, the one we say...
CR029/PH15 - Hell Stays Open All Night Long: George Jones, Phase III (01:46:56)
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 leading up to and through the biggest hit of his career. If y...
CR028/PH14 - Divorce/Death: He Stopped Loving Her Today, The Grand Tour & A Good Year for the Roses (02:15:36)
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 (02:47:19)
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 got passed down to future generations? How long do you thin...
CR026/PH12 - Loved It Away: Tammy Wynette, On Her Own (01:35:56)
Following her breakup with George Jones, many people had many questions for Tammy Wynette. Well, they had questions for George, too, but he was a little harder to get in touch with, trying to drink hi...
CR025/PH11 - Being Together: The George Jones & Tammy Wynette Story (01:51:24)
Though they were married to each other for little more than five years, the legacies of George Jones and Tammy Wynette are forever inseparable. This is partly due to their unprecedented success with c...
CR024/PH10 - Stand by Your Man: The Anti-Feminist Manifesto (01:55:31)
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 detonated at a sea change moment in United States politics and cul...
CR023/PH09 - Loneliness Surrounds: Virginia Wynette Pugh (01:43:53)
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. Even after becoming the most successful woman country singer at...
CR022/PH08 - Dallas Frazier: Can't Get There From Here (02:01:03)
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 after this episode, especially those of you who love Charley ...
CR021/PH07 - Pappy Daily, Gene Pitney and How George Jones Came to Be on Musicor (02:16:19)
This whole story began with a pinball machine and jukebox mogul in Texas jumping over to the independent record business of the 1950s. When he hitched his wagon to a Singing Marine who became the Grea...
CR020/PH06 - All to Pieces: George Jones, Phase II (01:41:38)
In the early 1960s, George Jones had a huge hit record featuring such a phenomenal vocal performance it instantly turned him into a living legend. He didn't handle it well.
CR019/PH05 - Wandering Soul: George Jones, Starday Recording Artist (01:30:06)
There are some personalities who would embrace being called The Greatest Country Singer Ever or, at least, settle into the role once it became clear the brand was eternal. George Jones did not have on...
CR018/PH04 - White Lightning (01:40:48)
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 wrong, good or bad, may be determined by any number of factors b...
CR017/PH03 - The Nashville A Team (02:20:29)
Now that we've established Owen Bradley as the single most important producer in the history of Nashville, let's take it further and acknowledge he's one of the most important figures in the history o...
What if the first serious books about country music contained a few massive errors which were then repeated by nearly everyone who's since used those books as a source? How long do you think it would ...
CR015/PH01 - Starday Records: The Anti-Nashville Sound (02:13:29)
The story of a little independent record label in Texas becoming "a force" in the Nashville country music industry brings an outsider's perspective to the anatomy of a machine. Going from backwoods ho...
BONUS: Cocaine & Rhinestones Season 1 Q&A (01:22:13)
You might think, "How could anyone finish a season of a podcast like Cocaine & Rhinestones and have questions? That guy saturates every episode with details like he's getting paid by the fact." There'...
CR014 - Ralph Mooney: The Sound of Country Music (01:25:40)
The legendary pedal steel guitarist, Ralph Mooney, deserves the reputation he earned on his instrument. However, he deserves a lot more than that. This episode of the podcast backtracks to Bakersfield...
CR013 - Rusty & Doug Kershaw: The Cajun Way (02:01:12)
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 succeed. Starting from nothing but a houseboat in Louisiana, they...
CR012 - Wynonna (01:57:18)
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 somehow surviving a childhood full of several types of abuse to ...
CR011 - Don Rich & Buck Owens, Part 2: Together Again (02:02:47)
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 reality itself may prove inadequate. With spacetime as our st...
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