Willie Nelson News

Billy Joe Shaver's new album, "Long in the Tooth" , comes out Aug. 5. Listen to an exclusive track, "Checkers and Chess," from the album below.

Despite its reputation for traditionalism, the genre has long welcomed outside influences - a fact that's as true today as it was in the period covered by Country Funk 1967-1974 .

The latest from Pitbull's upcoming eighth album, Globalization, clearly falls into the so-bad-it's-good category.

The Salvation Army is introducing a new event to the Texas music scene: the Most Good Music Festival on Sept.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming - Despite the Braun brothers being born in Idaho and having founded the band Reckless Kelly in Bend, Oregon, before moving to Austin in 1997, they more or less define the "Texas country" tag.

CHEERS, KENNY: He's 75, he's sold more than 120 million albums, and he recently played to a crowd of 130,000.

When Brandon Kinney arrived in Nashville 20 years ago, he knew he wanted to work in the music industry.

The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale features 16 interpretations of Cale's typically laid-back repertoire and is named after a 1972 release Call Me The Breeze .

As great as it was, the music was almost beside the point at the Wussy show on Thursday night at the Low Beat .

The veteran Americana singer and songwriter and Outlaw Country icon is back on the charts thanks to Willie Nelson 's version of Shaver's "Hard to Be an Outlaw" on his new Band of Brothers album which debuted at No.

Eric Clapton calls his new album of J.J. Cale songs an appreciation rather than a tribute, and that word choice gets at the appealingly modest vibe of this record.

Eldredge's single "Don't Ya," from his debut album, "Bring You Back," has climbed into the Top 10. He's also become familiar to country fans by opening for acts such as Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Willie Nelson and Taylor Swift.

In early October, when a certain music festival juggernaut sets up shop in Zilker Park, a group of entrepreneurs are debuting their new whiskey named after Texas' nine-banded armadillo and made in the spirit of Austin during the 1970s and 1980s.

On A Letter Home , the old man takes a look at his life through the voices and visions of his folk-rock, blues, and country peers and heroes on the ultimate lo-fi cover album.

Rogers, who turns 76 next month, will play a one-off outdoor concert in Launceston in February as part of his Through The Years world tour.

Christopher Denny's voice wasn't the easiest to place when he debuted with Age Old Hunger in 2007.

If country music rests on a bedrock of tradition, there's good cause for an album like "Bridges," the likely breakout of Mary Sarah.

Summer isn't over yet, so there's still plenty of time to add some beach reading material to your list.

"Just be awesome!" Shauna de Cartier declared to the under-tent crowd at Hawrelak Park.

There are, you could argue, two strands of Eric Clapton fans : those who love his scorching electric solos and groundbreaking fusions of blues and rock, and those who prefer his mellow, unplugged pop songs from later years.