Willie Nelson News

The Tennessean NASHVILLE -- Chet Flippo, 69, a music journalist whose career spanned nearly four decades, died Wednesday morning at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following an illness.

Country star Waylon Jennings, one of the first of the so-called country A'outlaws,A' at Performance Center, Cambridge, Mass., in 1976.

CMT Crossroads is a series of specials that aims to connect country-music luminaries with friends from across musical divides, but it usually just combines different flavors of cheese.

Back on April 18 music legend Willie Nelson performed with an all-star cast of friends at Jack White's Third Man Studios in Nashville, TN for a memorable concert that will hit the airwaves this Sunday as the latest installment of CMT's Crossroads.

Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here's To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho.

Group of ladies from Mansfield are doing a bikini carwash on July 27th to raise cash for Help for Heroes.

Thursday marks the launch of the 33rd edition of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival featuring internationally acclaimed acts including Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson, the Doobie Brothers and more.

"Ladies love outlaws," Waylon Jennings once sang, and well knew. Yes they do, and so do plenty of fellers, who may love the late Littlefield-born musician -- who was a losing coin flip away from being on Buddy Holly's doomed plane in February 1959 -- even more.

Taylor Swift might not want to be a feminist, but that hasn't stopped the rest of us from wishing that she were.

Willie Nelson means a lot of things to a lot of people, and his latest book Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die , a combination autobiography and road journal, is largely narrated by exactly those folks.

Thousands of country music fans came to the Bell County Fair on Friday night to see and hear award winning country singer, Jamey Johnson.

There's no better way to celebrate a music icon's birthday than with a star-studded performance.

During the final night at this year's inaugural Taste of Country Music Festival, it was announced that Brad Paisley will headline next year's incarnation of the event.

"The director of 1980's 'Honeysuckle Rose,' in which Willie was to act, mentioned he was looking for a road song for the film, and Willie said, 'How about On the road again, I can't wait to get on the road again'" and thus, just like that, another signature song was born.

The Grammy Award-winning Earle and his electric live band, The Dukes, are set to take the stage Aug. 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $60.50 and will go on sale Wednesday through the Membertou box office, which can be reached by phone at 539-2300.

Website: http://www.hannahbethel.com Vintage country singer/songwriter Hannah Bethel is taking time out of her busy schedule to give back and perform at the 4th Annual Summer of Hope Concert Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at Red Rooster Bar and Music Hall in Nashville, TN.

June 17--Anyone whose image of the long-running PBS series "Austin City Limits" is of singer-songwriters sitting on stools while picking out songs on acoustic guitars hasn't been paying attention.

Australian country music legends Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey team up for their new album together: The Great Country Songbook.

Singer Willie Nelson is taking his annual Farm Aid benefit concert to upstate New York with an all-day festival of music and locally grown food in September.

Seven-time Grammy winning country singer Willie Nelson is a legend. But he's also continuously on tour, so it's not that difficult to catch up with him and his favorite guitar, Trigger.