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It's surprising that jazz icon Wynton Marsalis and country legend Willie Nelson have recorded a CD together, and even more surprising that the music is neither jazz nor country.

Sit back and enjoy Willie NelsonA's crooning on his swinginA' masterpiece Stardust.

Written by Fantasma el ReyThe story of country music outlaw "Shotgun" Willie Nelson is fairly well known. He wrote a good number of hit songs for other artists while he was a minor vocal player on the country scene but in the early 1970s he came to the forefront along with other outlaws. Willie and friends changed the way that country...

Updated: Jul 3, 2008 10:52pm The Red Headed Stranger kicked off July 4th celebrations and a preview of Willie Nelson's new concert venue Thursday night in Central Texas.

The "Bio Willie" diesel fueling stations won't be operational until at least September, but the music was pumping Thursday as Willie Nelson and friends christened the rebuilt and expanded Willie's Place at ...

He was abandoned by his parents as a toddler. As a young struggling songwriter, he crisscrossed the country playing honky tonks and selling encyclopedias doortodoor just to feed his family.

San Angelo trio Los Lonely Boys burst out of the Lone Star State on the back of inescapable 2004 single Heaven , which brought the Garza brothers acclaim, cash and greater visibility.

Fascinating to see Ron Paul's campaign soliciting Willie Nelson's help for events surrounding the Republican convention: Paul is planning a one-day shadow convention that could be the wildest party of the ...

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis? On the same record? Well, why not? In a time when Ludacris and Motley Crue's Tommy Lee are getting together to save the environment, an album culled from two live shows ...

Texas music legend Willie Nelson officially opens his Willie's Place Theater and Whiskey River Saloon in Carl's Corner next week in true Willie form: big names, free admission, a fluid musical schedule and a ...

From bandanas to braids, Willie Nelson has practically done it all during more than six decades as a singer and songwriter.

Willie Nelson Stardust: Legacy Edition *****It should've been the record that killed his career , but instead, 1978's standards-oriented Stardust reinvented Nelson as a timeless icon, a singer removed from ...

Willie Nelson's paying up . He and his Farm Aid buddies brought money to Iowa for immediate relief to the flood-damaged farms along the Mississippi River.

If Willie was already a legend, Stardust forever cemented his status as an icon.

Over the short course of the history of popular music (at least as we define it today in the mostly American sense), there are but a handful of artists who stand out as truly iconic figures. These are those rare artists whose appeal transcends boundaries both artistic and generational. Gershwin, Berlin, Sinatra, and Bennett certainly all fall into...

Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a herculean task to put the singer/songwriter into context.

Several hours before his Saturday night concert at the Meskwaki Casino outdoor arena, Willie Nelson and his Farm Aid posse presented an initial $10,000 check to the Iowa Farm Grassroots Coalition for disaster ...

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Willie Nelson has contributed much more to the world than just his legendary music.

If Monday night was Willie Nelson at 75, save us a seat for 80. With a stack of songs as deeply engrained in our collective consciousness as the wrinkles on his weathered face, Nelson is a legend, an American ...

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Willie Nelson's first name really is Willie. Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a Herculean task to put the singer-songwriter ...