Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard were nearly finished recording the album, but didn’t feel like they had a big hit single. According to Songfacts, Nelson’s daughter, Lana, came up with the answer. She ...

Willie Nelson can be a tough get. Ernest recently returned to the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast, and the Nashville-based artist ...

Farm Aid was conceived after Bob Dylan made a famous statement at Live Aid a few months prior. Live Aid was a similar benefit concert that used proceeds to benefit charity. That concert, which was ...

That's the easy consensus we came to assembling our list of the 50 greatest musicians from Texas. Andrew Dansby, in fact, calls Nelson "one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century." But who's ...

When Willie Nelson performs in and around New York, he parks his bus in Weehawken, New Jersey. While the band sleeps at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, he stays on board, playing dominoes, napping.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Willie Nelson performs at the 40th Anniversary of Farm Aid. Nelson created the concert series in 1985 to aid family farmers.

Willie Nelson is one of the most beloved figures in American music. An outlaw-country star since the 1970s, he cemented his reputation on such albums as "Red-Headed Stranger," "Phases and Changes" and ...