#96 Tyler Mahan Coe on Podcasting the History of Country Music
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
For the third installment of our Music May series, Ben caught up with Tyler Mahan Coe whose podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones dives into some of the most famous stories in the history of country music. As a musician and son of country legend David Allan Coe, Tyler's own history is part of that story, but his ability to take the best of his own experiences while remaining objective in the subjects he covers is outstanding. Tyler talks about the calling that drove him to make Cocaine & Rhinestones, the methodology he developed to cover the history of country music in a podcast, and why he thinks most people don't have the story right when it comes to Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee.
A special shout out to Dr. Kelly Kolar for recommending Tyler as a guest for our music series and for joining us for the interview.
The Road to Now is a member of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on this episode, check out our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is in the Loop, the Legion of Osiris Podcasts. |
| 0:07.7 | What does that mean? |
| 0:08.9 | Osiris is a community of great music and culture podcasts. |
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| 0:18.2 | Osiris is partnered with Relics Magazine at relics.com. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Bob Crawford, joined as always by Dr. Ben Sawyer. Ben, I'm so jealous of you, because got to sit down with Tyler Co. Oh, man, it was |
| 0:40.7 | awesome. Tyler Mayhan Co. is the host of the Cocaine and Ryanstone's podcast, which is about the history |
| 0:48.5 | of country music. If you have not heard that podcast and you like history or you like country music, go listen to it. |
| 0:56.6 | Because if you like either one of those things, you're going to love this podcast. |
| 1:00.2 | It is so well done. |
| 1:02.4 | You know, and the day that you told me that you were going to sit down with him, I looked on my Twitter feed, and there was a Rolling Stone feature about his podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | He's definitely gotten a lot of notice and someone who grew up in his situation and with |
| 1:21.5 | his being the son of David Allen Co. |
| 1:23.7 | Speaking with him, did you feel like, I mean, this guy's just lived it all? |
| 1:27.7 | He has lived it, but the amazing thing is how able he is, despite having played guitar |
| 1:34.7 | in the David Allen co band from the time he was basically at 15 or something like that, |
| 1:39.7 | he has a remarkable ability to be objective. He goes through, he analyzes his sources, and the amazing thing about him is he has a remarkable ability to be objective. He goes through, he analyzes his sources. |
| 1:45.5 | And the amazing thing about him is he has a natural knack for this, a talent, a gift, because he dropped out of high school. |
| 1:54.2 | He did not go to college. |
| 1:55.6 | She certainly didn't go get an advanced degree in history. |
| 1:58.9 | But when you listen to this and listen to his podcast, |
| 2:01.7 | Cocaine and Rhinestones, please, after this, go download it. He goes through his sources after |
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