Stephen Wilson Jr.
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Some call it grotesque.
Others say it's unleashing human potential.
Either way, the podcast Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year.
Listen to Superhuman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged.
It's the Enhanced Games.
Some call it grotesque.
Others say it's unleashing human potential.
Either way, the podcast Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year.
Listen to Superhuman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
has a deep, rumbling voice.
He delivers his lyrics through a clenched jaw, as if he almost regrets having to articulate his feelings.
It's a self-conscious style, at once forceful and diffident, which only makes his music that much more intimate.
He's created a sound in which an increasingly large number of listeners find comfort and strength.
That's Wilson's version of the great Benny King song, Stand By Me.
It takes a serene, lovely ballad and roughs up its edges.
When he performed it as a Best New Artist nominee during the televised Country Music Awards in November, it stopped the show.
The camera panned across the faces of stars a hundred times more famous than Stephen Wilson Jr.
They seemed startled and elated by this moment free of glamour and self-congratulation.
Wilson's own compositions burst with images of his working-class upbringing in rural southern Indiana.