John Prine's The Great Compromise and the genesis of the American super-wealthy class.

Ola Belle Reed's Over Yonder in the Graveyard and the tragic history of the human thymus. 

States of matter, religion, and reincarnation in Tyler Childers' "Born Again"

Tom T. Hall plays a country music concert across from the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972 and has an interesting conversation with a janitor at a cheap airport hotel, birthing one of the greatest songs in traditional American mu...