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Music's Lost History Artist Edition He Was Endlessly Rejected In Nashville Until He Went Live · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 2: Aero Collins is back, back, back.
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  Speaker 1: Name the artist before we do. Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 3: Hey guys, welcome back to Music's Lost History, the Artist Edition.
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  Speaker 3: This singer-songwriter is one of the most successful artists of
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  Speaker 3: all time. In fact, he is one who is credited
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  Speaker 3: for changing what country music superstars could actually be. Born
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  Speaker 3: in Oklahoma in 1962, he'll tell you that music was
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  Speaker 3: not his childhood dream. In fact, his love and life...
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  Speaker 3: was sports, which he scholared in at Oklahoma State University.
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  Speaker 3: While in college, that's where he stumbled onto this thing
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  Speaker 3: called the guitar, which served as an open door for
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  Speaker 3: him to go all out live on local stages at
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  Speaker 3: bars and clubs. It was while he was doing a
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  Speaker 3: show at Willie's that he realized... Holy crap, I could
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  Speaker 3: actually be doing this and making money at the same time? Well,
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing. He didn't drop out of college and
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  Speaker 3: go score a major deal in Nashville, Tennessee. Nah, he
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  Speaker 3: was rejected. So much so that he went back home
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  Speaker 3: to Oklahoma until 1987 when he picked up a real
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  Speaker 3: job at a boot store. That's where he met up
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  Speaker 3: with other musicians who helped him create that sound. Coming
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  Speaker 3: up next, a love for sports. He loved the guitar,
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  Speaker 3: but he was rejected over and over again. Who is this?
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  Speaker 1: Aero Collins is back.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for coming back to Music's Lost History, the
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  Speaker 3: Artist's Edition. This dude was born to love sports. He
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  Speaker 3: fell in love with the guitar, but he was rejected
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  Speaker 3: in Nashville not once, but over and over again. In 1988,
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  Speaker 3: this soon-to-be legend hooked up again with a record executive
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  Speaker 3: who earlier had said, nah, you don't stand a chance.
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  Speaker 3: But Lynn Schultz had never seen him live on stage
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  Speaker 3: until that one night at the Bluebird Cafe. And boom,
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  Speaker 3: he was inked to a deal with Capitol Records. Now,
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  Speaker 3: things were clicking, but not as big as the day
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  Speaker 3: that he changed the scale of country music. His 1990
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  Speaker 3: album sold 700,000 copies in just 10 days. As one
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  Speaker 3: critic said, this artist brought a rock and roll energy
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  Speaker 3: into a country music vibe. He paid his dues knowing
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  Speaker 3: music is something that just doesn't come easy. And it
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  Speaker 3: was very difficult for him because he knew in his
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  Speaker 3: heart that he didn't fit into country music. Until they
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  Speaker 3: realized that Garth Brooks was helping to redefine what became
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  Speaker 3: a huge music movement. And it's still going on today.
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  Speaker 3: It goes to show you, you can have some friends
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  Speaker 3: in low places. But if you keep reaching, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to conquer some serious goals.
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  Speaker 2: Music!
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  Speaker 3: I'm Arrow, and that's Music's Lost History, the Artist Edition.