When entertainer Smokey Ward forgot Frank Brown Jr.'s name on live radio at WPFB in Middletown, Ohio, he improvised the nickname Hylo, a nod to a voice that could hit high tenor and low bass in the same breath. This episode follows Hylo Brown from his 1922 birth in River, Kentucky and his family's migration to Springfield, Ohio, through radio work beginning in 1939 at WCMI in Ashland and WLOG in West Virginia, and recordings with Bradley Kincaid in 1950.

The hosts examine the 1954 turning point when Brown pitched his song Lost to a Stranger to Capitol Records for Kitty Wells and A and R man Ken Nelson insisted he record it himself, his first Capitol session on November 7, 1954, the Buckskin Boys on the 50,000-watt WWVA Jamboree, his 1957 move to Flatt and Scruggs' Martha White shows, the Timberliners lineup of Red Rector, Clarence Tater Tat ...