Lefty Frizzell is one of the most influential stylists in country music history, the voice that shaped George Jones, Merle Haggard, and countless others. But his story holds a hard contradiction: one of his most beautiful early love songs was written from a jail cell, while he was serving time for a sex crime against an underage fan. This episode does not look away from that.

We trace Frizzell's enormous musical legacy alongside the moral failures and self-destruction that shadowed his life, examining how to hold genuine artistic importance and serious wrongdoing in the same frame. It is an honest, unsentimental look at a complicated and consequential figure.

• Lefty Frizzell's outsized influence on country singing
• The troubling circumstances behind an early hit, written while jailed
• The self-destruction that underc ...