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Maren Morris, Ashley McBryd and Kacey Musgraves.

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How women in country music are finding new ways to break through.

Steve Earle on Prisons

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Inspiration in Dance and Music

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Inspiration in Dance and Music

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Willie Nelson

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The country music legend talks to us on his bus after a show in Ruston, Louisiana about life on the road. Produced by Trey Kay.

Ralph Stanley

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The bluegrass legend who hit the mainstream with the soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou, told us about his 55 years of touring — and what it was like at the beginning, with the Stanley Brothers. Produced by Trey Kay.

Pedal Steel

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You’ve heard the plaintive cry of the steel guitar. The sound comes from lightly gliding a steel bar along a set of guitar strings, and it’s the signature note of country music from Jimmie Rogers the Singing Brakeman to Shania Twain. Studio 360’s David Krasnow traces the birth of the instrument that put the west […]

Special Guest: Rosanne Cash

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Kurt Andersen and singer Rosanne Cash talk about being an artist in the shadow of a famous and talented parent. Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and author. Over the last twenty years she’s released eleven albums which have earned her several #1 hits. Last year she came out with Rules of Travel, her […]

Aha Moment: Pedal Steel

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When he was a young musician, Chas Smith had zero interest in country music, and had never really paid attention to the painstakingly slow, textured flow of sounds that come from the pedal steel guitar. He recently told Studio 360’s David Krasnow how an accident of faith and a bad habit lead to his mastering […]

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