Then, Phases and Stages, a concept album for which Willie abandoned Nashville altogether and recorded down in Muscle Shoals.

As Tortuga Music Festival returns to Fort Lauderdale this weekend, here are six recommended acts that may be new to you, beginning with Delray Beach’s Artikal Sound System.

How does state pride sound at its most distilled? Artists like George Strait and BigXthaPlug, spanning eras, genres, and oceans, have given us more answers to that question than we ever expected to ...

But to summarize, he was born in San Benito, Texas — not far from Brownsville and the Mexico border town of Matamoros ... not far from Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch. If Crockett is an ambassador ...

Lake Granbury becomes the town’s unofficial community center every Memorial Day weekend, with boats dotting the blue water ...

Willie Nelson’s new album, “Oh What A Beautiful World," is his latest devoted to the songs of a specific composer. In this ...

A pair of new Willie Nelson projects -- his own album and a tribute -- lead a particularly busy week of new releases, with ...

Willie Nelson recorded his iconic album "Red Headed Stranger" in Garland at Autumn Sound Studio, now called Audio Dallas.

It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as “ninja,” “fishmonger” and “absinthe,” which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter ...