Hardy Cheated Death & Lives to Tell the Tale

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Country! Country! is the newly released album title of our guest this week, HARDY. In our conversation, he opens up about the near-fatal bus accident that changed his life three years ago, reflects on “Bro Country” and his friendship with Morgan Wallen, and even shares his love for the band Sleep Token. From death and murder ballads to unexpected laughs, this episode has it all. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're good. We are so good that we are back for a new episode of Rolling Stones Nashville now.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Joseph Hudak, Senior Music Editor Rolling Stone.
0:16.7	Country is here. Nashville is now. Thank you all for joining us this week.
0:21.6	We have had a humdinger of a week in Nashville.
0:26.6	It was our semi-annual installment of the Rolling Stone Riders Room, what we put on with our friends over at Dickle Whiskey.
0:35.6	If you have not been out to Cascade Hollow
0:38.1	here in Tennessee to tour the Dickel Distillery, highly recommend you do that. And then maybe
0:43.8	one day you'll be lucky enough to attend a rider's room with us. Let me just give you a little
0:49.0	history about it because this is why it's important to talk about this week's because it was so
0:53.0	freaking fun.
0:56.7	But our track record is really darn good.
1:00.5	We started a couple years ago with 49 Winchester.
1:05.4	Of course, they blew up and are now about to go on tour of arenas with Eric Church.
1:12.0	A couple months after that, we ended up out in Palm Springs right before stagecoach for a writer's round,
1:12.9	a writer's room.
1:16.2	We had Stephen Wilson Jr., Charlie Crockett, and Drayton Farley.
1:17.6	That was badass.
1:23.8	And then we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Rolling Stone Country at the Nashville Palace here in Nashville with Maggie Rose, Brent Cobb, Silverada, and Taylor Honeycutt.
1:29.1	This year, this writer's room installment featured three artists that I'm so hot on right now.
1:37.7	They are the future.
1:39.0	It's Tyler Halverson from South Dakota.
1:42.2	He is a bit of a pothead country singer. I'm going to just say that.
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