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EPISODE · Jan 16, 2026 · 40 MIN

Countryroll 3: Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell and Kitty Wells Lead a Post-War Country Music Boom

from Let It Roll EXTRA · host Nate Wilcox

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.comHost Nate Wilcox and music writer James Porter continue their discussion of Ken Burns' Country Music with a look a Hank Williams, the living avatar of honky tonk, his closest rival Lefty Frizzell, as well as Eddy Arnold, who offered a pop-country alternative, and Kitty Wells whose answer song prefigured feminist country music.

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