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Sep 2024
24m 56s

Everybody's gone country

Vox
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Country music is cool again!!!!! Billboard's Melinda Newman explains.

This episode was reported and produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King.

Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast

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Post Malone and Alan Jackson at this year's Academy Of Country Music Honors. Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for ACM.

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