Monday, January 28
• Figurative Language
Randy Travis: Deeper than the Holler (1988)
Alabama: Love in the First Degree (1980)
Garth Brooks: The Dance (1989)
George Strait: She'll Leave You With a Smile (1997)
Sylvia: Nobody (1982)
Brooks and Dunn: Lost and Found (1991)
Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley: Whiskey Lullaby (2003)
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VIDEO: Josh Turner: Long Black Train (2003)
Wednesday, January 30
• Narrative
Flatt and Scruggs: Little Glass of Wine (1949)
Garth Brooks: Papa Loved Mama (1991)
Alan Jackson: Chasin' that Neon Rainbow (1989)
Mark Chesnutt: I Just Wanted You to Know (1993)
Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe (1967)
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town) (1969)
Kenny Chesney: Don't Blink (2007)
David Lee Murphy: Party Crowd (1995)
Wednesday, February 6
• Small Towns and Hometowns
Sweethearts of the Rodeo: Midnight Girl, Sunset Town (1986)
Iris Dement: Our Town (1990)
Hal Ketchum: Small Town Saturday Night (1991)
Mary Chapin Carpenter: I Am a Town (1992)
Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (2000)
Sara Evans: Suds in the Bucket (2003)
Miranda Lambert: Famous in a Small Town (2007)
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VIDEO: Cross Canadian Ragweed: 17 (2002)
Monday, February 11
• Mexico
Gene Autry: South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) (1939)
Marty Robbins: El Paso (1959)
Bobby Bare: Pour Me Another Tequila, Sheila (1979)
Eddy Raven: I Got Mexico (1984)
Kevin Fowler: Senorita Mas Fina (2002)
Toby Keith: Stays in Mexico (2004)
Kenny Chesney: Beer in Mexico (2005)
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VIDEO: George Strait: Seashores of Old Mexico (2005)
Paper One Podcasts
• Texas
• California
• Louisiana
• Nashville
• New York City
Wednesday, February 13
• The American South
Tanya Tucker: I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise Again (1974)
Don Williams: Good Ole Boys Like Me (1979)
Bellamy Brothers: You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie (1979)
Hank Williams, Jr: If the South Woulda Won (1988)
Earl Scruggs and Tom T Hall: Song of the South (1982)
Alabama: Dixieland Delight (1989)
Pat Green: Dixie Lullaby (2006)
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VIDEO: Alabama: Song of the South (1989)
Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man (2007)
Wednesday, February 20
• Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette: I Don't Wanna Play House (1967)
Tammy Wynette: D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1968)
Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man (1968)
George Jones and Tammy Wynette: The Ceremony (1972)
Tammy Wynette: Kids Say the Darndest Things (1973)
George Jones and Tammy Wynette: Golden Ring (1976)
George Jones and Tammy Wynette: Two Story House (1980)
Wednesday, February 27
• Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash: "Folsom Prison Blues" (1955)
Johnny Cash: “I Walk the Line” (1956)
Johnny Cash: "Ring of Fire" (1963)
Johnny Cash: "Flesh and Blood" (1970)
Johnny Cash: “Man in Black” (1970)
Johnny Cash: "The Reverend Mr Black" (1982)
Johnny Cash: "I See a Darkness" (2000)
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VIDEO: Johnny Cash: Hurt (2003)
Johnny Cash: God's Gonna Cut You Down (2006)
Monday, March 5
• Hank Williams I, II, and III
Jack Cardwell: The Death of Hank Williams (1953)
Waylon Jennings: Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (1975)
David Allan Coe: Hank Williams Junior Junior (1976)
Hank Williams, Jr: Family Tradition (1979)
David Allan Coe: The Ride (1983)
Austin Lounge Lizards: The Car Hank Died In (1984)
Hank Williams III: Trashville (2002)
Hank Williams III: Dick in Dixie (2006)
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VIDEO: Hank Williams, Jr: A Country Boy Can Survive (1981)
Monday, March 17
• Authenticity
Loretta Lynn: You're Lookin' at Country (1971)
Barbara Mandrell and George Jones: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool (1981)
Deryl Dodd: Things Are Fixin to Get Real Good (2003)
Garth Brooks: Friends in Low Places (1990)
Chris Gaines: Lost in You (1999)
Shania Twain: Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under (1995)
Shania Twain: I'm Gonna Getcha Good! (2002)
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VIDEO: Alan Jackson: Gone Country (1994)
Brad Paisley: Celebrity (2003)
Gretchen Wilson: Redneck Woman (2004)
Monday, March 24
• Nostalgia
Dolly Parton: In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (1969)
Merle Haggard: Big City (1981)
Merle Haggard: Are the Good Times Really Over (1981)
Tim Mcgraw: Where the Green Grass Grows (1997)
Brooks and Dunn: Red Dirt Road (2003)
Tim Mcgraw: Back When (2004)
Kevin Fowler: Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (2006)
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VIDEO: The Judds: Grandpa (Tell Me Bout the Good Old Days) (1985)
Alan Jackson: Chattahoochee (1992)
Wednesday, April 2
• Race
Fiddlin John Carson: Run Nigger Run (1924)
Johnny Rebel: Nigger Hatin Me (1965)
Charley Pride: I'm Just Me (1971)
Merle Haggard: Irma Jackson (1972)
Merle Haggard: White Man Singin the Blues (1974)
Cowboy Troy: I Play Chicken with the Train (2005)
Rissi Palmer: Country Girl (2007)
Monday, April 7
• Women's Work
Billie Jo Spears: Mr Walker, It's All Over (1969)
Bobbie Gentry: Fancy (1970)
Loretta Lynn: One's on the Way (1972)
Doug Stone: In a Different Light (1990)
Mary Chapin Carpenter: He Thinks He'll Keep Her (1992)
Trisha Yearwood: XXXs and OOOs (An American Girl) (1995)
Tammy Cochran: Nobody's Home (2007)
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VIDEO: Reba Mcentire: Fancy (1990)
Lonestar: Mr. Mom (2004)
Wednesday, April 9
• Domestic Violence
Louvin Brothers: Knoxville Girl (1956)
Hank Williams, Jr: Attitude Adjustment (1984)
Reba Mcentire: The Stairs (1987)
Johnny Cash: Delia's Gone (1990)
Hal Ketchum: Past the Point of Rescue (1991)
Loretta Lynn: Women’s Prison (2004)
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VIDEO: Garth Brooks: The Thunder Rolls (1990)
Martina Mcbride: Independence Day (1993)
The Dixie Chicks: Goodbye Earl (1999)
Carrie Underwood: Before He Cheats (2005)
Monday, April 14
• War
Ernest Tubb: Soldier's Last Letter (1972)
Merle Haggard: The Fightin' Side of Me (1972)
Toby Keith: Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American) (2002)
Dixie Chicks: Travelin' Soldier (2002)
Darryl Worley: Have You Forgotten (2003)
Merle Haggard: America First (2003)
Tim Mcgraw: If You're Reading This (2007)
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VIDEO: Toby Keith: American Soldier (2003)
Monday, April 21
• Cowboys
Gene Autry: Happy Roving Cowboy (1958)
Glen Campbell: Rhinestone Cowboy (1975)
Willie Nelson: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1976)
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (1978)
Conway Twitty: Don't Call Him a Cowboy (1985)
Tim Mcgraw: The Cowboy in Me (2001)
Willie Nelson: Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other (2006)
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VIDEO: Toby Keith: Should've Been a Cowboy (1993)
Monday, April 28
• Outlaws
Merle Haggard: Mama Tried (1968)
Merle Haggard: The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
Serge Gainsbourg: Bonnie et Clyde (1968)
Townes van Zandt: Poncho and Lefty (1972)
Johnny Paycheck: The Outlaw's Prayer (1979)
Hank Williams, Jr: Outlaw's Reward (1985)
Robert Earl Keen: The Road Goes on Forever (2003)
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VIDEO: Toby Keith and Willie Nelson: Beer for My Horses (2002)
Wednesday, April 30
• Genre
Cory Morrow: Nashville Blues (2001)
Roger Creager: Fun All Wrong (1998)
Reckless Kelly: Break My Heart Tonight (2006)
Robert Earl Keen: What I Really Mean (2005)
Eli Young Band: Small Town Kid (2005)
Jason Boland and the Stragglers: Pearl Snaps (2001)
Kevin Fowler: Long Line of Losers (2007)
Stoney Larue: Oklahoma Breakdown (2007)
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VIDEO: Taylor Swift: Tim McGraw (2006)