Willie Nelson News

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.

In July 1985, while on stage in Philadelphia for Live Aid, the massive global benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia, Bob Dylan remarked that family farmers in the U.S. could use some help too.

Rench first came up with the concept back in grade school when he would breakdance on cardboard to RUN-DMC during recess, then go home and listen to his parents' favorite country artists Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson on the stereo.

"Willie would like to see you on his bus now." For a country music fan, those words are the equivalent of inviting a Trekkie to spend time with Captain Kirk on the starship Enterprise.

This year's Farm Aid benefit show will take place on September 13 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the lineup includes all the usual suspects, plus one new face: Jack White.

He's been to some high places in his time, but now Snoop Dogg has turned even the White House green - by lighting a cannabis joint in the bathroom.

In addition to his own No. 1 hits, "Just Another Day in Paradise" and "In a Real Love," artists such as Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson and Jo Dee Messina have also taken Vassar-penned tunes to the top of the charts.

It's summer, so we're right in the middle of road trip season. Whether you're hitting the road for a family vacation or taking off to Vegas with a few of your best friends, there's no better way to see the country than from the window of your own car.

Keith Urban delivers hits at Delaware State Fair return On Tuesday night, the country star performed his first Delaware State Fair show since 2003.

THERE are around ten Irish dance shows touring the world at any one time, and one of them - arguably the most successful bar Riverdance/Lord of the Dance, is Rhythm of the Dance, the National Dance Company of Ireland's dynamic step dance show, featuring The Young Irish Tenors, a live band and a pretty dynamic light show.

The band Daze of August is made up of Morgan County residents, mostly from Fort Morgan, and they played during the annual BobStock music festival on Saturday.

Toby Keith, the country music artist who sang about Beer for My Horses in a famous 2003 duet with Willie Nelson, more recently sings about Drinks After Work in the title track from his 2013 album of the same name.