Drawn & Recorded - Season 1

Blind Willie Johnson saw only darkness, darkness that he poured into music, the blues. Blind Willie Johnson lived a tragic life and died a young man. But at least one of Blind Willie's recordings will live on forever… voyaging through the darkness of space. Into eternity.

He might have been a ‘bastard' to many, but to one little girl in Brooklyn, Ol' Dirty, was nothing short of a superhero, a guardian angel in grills.

Find out how the scent of a woman inspired Kurt Cobain to write an anthem for the ages.

How did jazz legend, Louis Armstrong, make then-Vice President Richard Nixon his drug mule?

With a little help from brother, Duane, Gregg Allman takes aim at an unpopular war but ends up shooting himself in the foot… literally.

Brian Jones founded The Rolling Stones. But once fame and fortune visited upon the group, Brian had trouble keeping his head above water. Mick Jagger threw his friend and bandmate a lifeline. But could Brian Jones reach it?

A mutton-chopped bike-riding speed-freak is hell-bent on revenge. Motorhead is on the move… and it ain't gonna be pretty.

The Vietnam-era draft broke up one of rock and roll's ultimate odd couples though after the split each would go on to become an icon in his own right.

When Johnny Cash played San Quentin, he inspired a prisoner in the audience… and another country legend was born.

When Creed frontman, Scott Stapp, fell hard, the rapper, T.I., grew wings and saved his life.