How does state pride sound at its most distilled? Artists like George Strait and BigXthaPlug, spanning eras, genres, and oceans, have given us more answers to that question than we ever expected to ...

including Haggard, Price, Gimble, and Emmons, have passed in the years since its release. For as much as the trio’s position as the self-proclaimed “last of a dying breed” might have chafed ...

He passes (passes!) on smoking dope with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard on their tour bus. But Wolf does drain a lot of glasses in these pages. What encounters! A chapter on insane ...

More concert announcements are expected to ... Hall and Oates, John Legend, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Alabama Shakes, Isbell, the Richard Thompson Trio, Styx ...

The Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater opened April 1, 2011 as Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, at 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, with a concert by ... John Legend, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Crazy ...

Following a string of personal and professional strains, Nelson started working on his 13th album, Yesterday’s Wine, his first of three concept albums, including Phases and Stages (1974 ...

This Merle Haggard song has become synonymous with his entire career, but he often said he regretted ever writing it.

Known as the Red-Headed Stranger, a serious cannabis enthusiast and one of country music's most iconic songwriters, Willie Nelson has recorded an incredible number of classic songs in his more ...

Her upcoming second album, Always Will Be, is devoted to songs by her Honeysuckle Rose costar and longtime friend, Willie Nelson. The record features 10 songs written or made famous by Nelson ...

Kiwi creative Kate Wilson had the opportunity to paint in a live setting at Willie Nelson's Texas Ranch. Photo / Kate Wilson Spicewood, Texas, is a long way from Mackenzie Country. So how did Kiwi ...

A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard. Merle was born the third child of ... He attended a Lefty Frizzell concert with his friend and the two sat backstage.