Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
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CR031/PH17 - Choices: George Jones' Last Run
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 e...
CR030/PH16 - Another Lonely Song: The Tammy Wynette & George Richey Story
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 infuriati...
CR029/PH15 - Hell Stays Open All Night Long: George Jones, Phase III
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...
CR028/PH14 - Divorce/Death: He Stopped Loving Her Today, The Grand Tour & A Good Year for the Roses
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
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 passe...
CR026/PH12 - Loved It Away: Tammy Wynette, On Her Own
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 litt...
CR025/PH11 - Being Together: The George Jones & Tammy Wynette Story
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 i...
CR024/PH10 - Stand by Your Man: The Anti-Feminist Manifesto
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 s...
CR023/PH09 - Loneliness Surrounds: Virginia Wynette Pugh
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 be...
CR022/PH08 - Dallas Frazier: Can't Get There From Here
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...
CR021/PH07 - Pappy Daily, Gene Pitney and How George Jones Came to Be on Musicor
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...
CR020/PH06 - All to Pieces: George Jones, Phase II
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...
CR019/PH05 - Wandering Soul: George Jones, Starday Recording Artist
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 t...
CR018/PH04 - White Lightning
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...
CR017/PH03 - The Nashville A Team
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...
CR016/PH02 – Owen Bradley's Nashville Sound
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...
CR015/PH01 - Starday Records: The Anti-Nashville Sound
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...
BONUS: Cocaine & Rhinestones Season 1 Q&A
You might think, "How could anyone finish a season of a podcast like Cocaine & Rhinestones and have questions? That guy saturates every episode with d...
CR014 - Ralph Mooney: The Sound of Country Music
The legendary pedal steel guitarist, Ralph Mooney, deserves the reputation he earned on his instrument. However, he deserves a lot more than that. Thi...
CR013 - Rusty & Doug Kershaw: The Cajun Way
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. Starti...
CR012 - Wynonna
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 surviv...
CR011 - Don Rich & Buck Owens, Part 2: Together Again
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 its...
CR010 - Buck Owens & Don Rich, Part 1: Open Up Your Heart
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 desperately needed...
CR009 - Harper Valley PTA, Part 3: Tom T. Hall
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 the story...
CR008 - Harper Valley PTA, Part 2: Jeannie C. Riley
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 late '60s...
CR007 - Harper Valley PTA, Part 1: Shelby S. Singleton
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-school re...
CR006 - The Louvin Brothers: Running Wild
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 always/onl...
CR005 - Breaking Down Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee"
The song was just what so many Americans needed at the time, in 1969. Conservatives needed someone to stand up and defend small town, traditional valu...
CR004 - Bobbie Gentry: Exit Stage Left
In 1967, Bobbie Gentry's recording of a song she wrote, called "Ode to Billie Joe," directly influenced the future of every major musical genre in Ame...
CR003 - The Murder Ballad of Spade Cooley
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, Spade became a...
CR002 - The Pill: Why Was Loretta Lynn Banned?
This episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones briefly examines the history of contraceptive laws in America (Trigger Warning: abortion is discussed) before mo...
CR001 - Ernest Tubb: The Texas Defense
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, you might g...