Backstaged

Go backstage with Alison Bonaguro for 15 years of her best stories about life as a country music journalist.

Bonaguro -- a country music fan first and an industry insider second -- is the only one who can take you behind the scenes to see what goes on when a country star isn't on stage. After spending much of her professional life having in-depth conversations with the stars you love, she's finally sharing the fascinating kinds of stories that didn't make it into her actual stories. The ones where she and Lee Brice got kicked out of a Vegas bar, or when she got to know Blake Shelton in the lobby of a Holiday Inn, or how she almost died after a Luke Bryan interview, or the night she accidentally had dinner with Kid Rock, or shared Skinny Bitches with Miranda Lambert's parents, or walked inside the ropes with golfer John Daly, or got subpeonaed by Sara Evans' ex-husband, or the one about the living hell she went through when she dared to not love a Beyonce song. Those are just a few of the tales she has to tell after spending close to two decades making a living out of loving country music. No one else can tell these stories, because no one else has lived them and chronicled them quite like Bonaguro, who is a consistent and prolific voice within Nashville media circles.