Midland To Explore Country Music Mysteries With New Spotify Podcast
Midland will launch a new podcast, Set It Straight with Midland, tomorrow (Sept. 25) exclusively on Spotify.
The 10 episodes in the podcast’s season will focus on the history of country music, exploring the genre’s strange and surprising stories. In each episode, Midland debates the veracity of each story and invites a guest to (hopefully) help set the story straight.
The season starts with producer/tour manager/author Phil Kaufman to discuss the truth the about the corpse of Kaufman’s former client, Gram Parsons, which was stolen from the Los Angeles airport under strange circumstances.
Others to appear on the podcast include Tanya Tucker, who was allegedly booed off the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in 1978 for dressing her all-male band in women’s clothes; songwriter Earl Bud Lee who supposedly sold the rights to his biggest song, Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places,” to settle a bar tab. Dwight Yoakam joins to discuss whether the lyrics to Buck Owens’ biggest hits “Streets of Bakersfield,” were actually written about Owens himself.
“Much of the inspiration behind Midland comes from our country music heroes and the legacy they’ve left for us to learn from,” says the band. “Their tall tales are things of lore, and we are taking on the immense challenge of uncovering the truth and setting their stories straight. You won’t believe your ears. Hope you guys enjoy our brand new podcast, Set It Straight on Spotify.”
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