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"Cocaine & Rhinestones" Returns, to Dazzle Again


George Jones, in 1956, in Nashville.Photograph from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty
“Nearly everybody is confused by their first interaction with a pinball machine,” Tyler Mahan Coe says, with his familiar declarative zeal, at the beginning of the long-awaited second season of his country-music-history podcast, “Cocaine & Rhinestones.” We hear the game’s bells, chimes, and thunks as Coe delves into pinball discourse (in old movies, “pinball is a signifier of people with ambiguous morals who
will break the law if the reward is having a good time”), historical details (in 1942, Fiorello LaGuardia “armed the N.Y.P.D. with sledgehammers and a mandate to smash pinball machines on sight”), and country music (Lonnie Irving’s mournful “Pinball Machine”). We don’t know why he’s talking about pinball, and we don’t care: it’s glorious listening. After ten minutes of this, and after announcing that the game ....

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