Following a string of personal and professional strains, Nelson started working on his 13th album, Yesterday’s Wine, his first of three concept albums, including Phases and Stages (1974 ...

In less than two weeks, we will drive to Huntsville, Alabama, to see the last of the country music outlaws. I’ve never seen Willie Nelson in concert, and with his ...

The amphitheater has new videoboards and a lineup of shows that includes Brantley Gilbert, Blake Shelton, Doug E. Fresh, ...

He passes (passes!) on smoking dope with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard on their tour bus. But Wolf does drain a lot of glasses in these pages. What encounters! A chapter on insane ...

Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Alabama Shakes, Isbell, the Richard Thompson Trio, Styx, Brandi Carlile, Earth Wind and Fire, Alan Jackson, Counting Crows, Backstreet ...

including Haggard, Price, Gimble, and Emmons, have passed in the years since its release. For as much as the trio’s position as the self-proclaimed “last of a dying breed” might have chafed ...

She took that rejection and turned it into an album, joining the ranks of country outlaws like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, ...

A prime example is Merle Haggard’s 1969 hit “Okie From ... cannabis as part of their rebellious personas. Willie Nelson, in particular, became synonymous with marijuana culture, famously smoking on ...

Key Tracks: “Cash Machine,” “Hard to Beat,” “Living for the Weekend” 68. Pancho & Lefty – Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson (1983) This collaboration between two country music legends resulted in a ...

This Merle Haggard song has become synonymous with his entire career, but he often said he regretted ever writing it.

A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard.