Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

By Tyler Mahan Coe

Society & Culture History

What's Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music about?

The podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.

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02.06.2018

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's always more to know. Like, how ...

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music episodes:

02.06.2018 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 details like he's getting paid by the fact." There's always more to know. Like, how ...
01.23.2018 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. This episode of the podcast backtracks to Bakersfield for a deeper examination of its "sound," a closer ...
01.16.2018 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. Starting from nothing but a houseboat in Louisiana, they fought their way ...
01.09.2018 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 surviving a childhood full of several types of abuse to a years-long reign over country ...
01.02.2018 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 itself may prove inadequate. With spacetime as our stage, we trip backwards for more ...
12.26.2017 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 real country music to the world in a time when we desperately needed someone to do that. Sticking to that real deal honky tonk sound ...
12.19.2017 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 about who he is and how he's able to do what he can ...
12.12.2017 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, Jeannie C. Riley became country music's most blatant sex symbol to date ...
12.05.2017 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 record man show you how it's done. This ...
11.28.2017 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/only family) who can sing this way: blood harmony. This episode delves in to exactly what ...
11.21.2017 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 values. Politicians needed someone to justify America's continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. Oklahomans needed ...
11.14.2017 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 America. In the early '80s, she disappeared. What happened in the decade between? Why did ...
11.07.2017 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 millionaire. And all he needed to accomplish that was a fiddle, ...
10.31.2017 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 moving on to uncover the staggering inequality of morality applied to women in country music versus that applied to ...
10.24.2017 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 guess that ol' Jim had it coming. Maybe he didn't, maybe ...

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

What's Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music episodes:

BONUS: Cocaine & Rhinestones Season 1 Q&A

Ralph Mooney: The Sound of Country Music

Rusty & Doug Kershaw: The Cajun Way

Wynonna

Don Rich & Buck Owens, Part 2: Together Again

Buck Owens & Don Rich, Part 1: Open Up Your Heart

Harper Valley PTA, Part 3: Tom T. Hall

Harper Valley PTA, Part 2: Jeannie C. Riley

Harper Valley PTA, Part 1: Shelby S. Singleton

The Louvin Brothers: Running Wild

Breaking Down Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee"

Bobbie Gentry: Exit Stage Left

The Murder Ballad of Spade Cooley

The Pill: Why Was Loretta Lynn Banned?

Ernest Tubb: The Texas Defense

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