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 ...

In less than two weeks, we will drive to Huntsville, Alabama, to see the last of the country music outlaws. I’ve never seen Willie Nelson in concert, and with his ...

In other words, he doesn’t sound like Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, or Johnny Cash. He sounds like Willie Nelson, and nobody else sounds like him. If you are a member of the younger generation ...

The 500 songs he published were a mix of rockabilly, honky-tonk, outlaw country and country gospel, and some were covered by ...

Garth Brooks has broken his silence after songwriter Larry Bastian, who worked with the country star on hit songs like “Rodeo ...

And, Willie Nelson was one of his favorites. And both of my grandparents favorites. And, I kind of found Merle Haggard on my own when I started playing. And, you know, I probably had 20 or 30 ...

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 ...

Besides Garth Brooks, Bastian also wrote songs for country music superstars like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Reba McEntire, and Buck Owens. Reba McEntire is another one of the ...

Toto’s 2025 setlist focuses on the heritage of the band. The setlist was interesting. Compared to how it was curated for Australia in 2019 this time Toto kept to the albums of the 1900s. Mind you, ...

The event features live blues music and “BBQ and ... Fleet grew up on a stack of records spanning Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Willie Nelson, and Marvin Gaye. A thoughtful songwriter with ...

The amphitheater has new videoboards and a lineup of shows that includes Brantley Gilbert, Blake Shelton, Doug E. Fresh, ...