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The Recording Academy is changing its Best Country Album category following Beyoncé’s win in 2025. Many fans and some country ...

The country music world was rocked this week as news broke that Mark Laws, a popular drummer and band leader for singer Alex Miller, was killed in a shooting in Tennessee. His tragic death marked at ...

Nelson has always loved singing the songs of his friends as much as if not more than the ones he writes himself. In 1979, he ...

Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday ... The life he loves is making music with his friends, even after outliving so many dear ones. Nelson will be on the road again with Bob Dylan when the Outlaw ...

The life he loves is making music with his friends ... This spring, Nelson released his 77th studio album. And he's added a new THC tonic, Willie's Remedy, to his wide world of weed products.

Willie Nelson is a living legend of country music, and over the course of his nearly 70-year career, his signature mellow vocals and decades of creative collaborations have earned him a ...

Willie Nelson in concert on the Outlaw Music Festival tour Stevo Rood / Live Nation-Hewitt Silva This is not to say, though, that Nelson curates a rote hits list. One of the great joys of his set ...

By Brady Gerber Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson turned the Hollywood Bowl into a haven for Americana and country on Friday night, as the two legends brought the Outlaw Music Festival back to the ...

Willie Nelson. Yet the 92-year-old Texas icon has been performing music with Trigger for so long — since 1969, to be exact — that the pair co-exist not as musician and guitar but as a single ...