In 1959, a new kind of club opened in Dallas. It was called The Rubaiyat. It served coffee. And, despite what Austin will ...

Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six years old.

In the late 1960s, Willie Nelson worried he wasn't ready for Nashville. By the mid-1970s, he knew that Nashville hadn't been ...

The first time I saw Willie Nelson in concert was July 4, 1976, at the Sterling Kelly Ranch near Gonzales. It was his fourth ...

A pair of new Willie Nelson projects -- his own album and a tribute -- lead a particularly busy week of new releases, with ...

“Oh What A Beautiful World” is Nelson’s latest album devoted to the songs of a specific songwriter, and in Crowell, he’s interpreting a kindred spirit. While Crowell has a slightly ...

It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as “ninja,” “fishmonger” and “absinthe,” which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter ...