He is Willie Nelson. And these are his 50 essential songs. Much of the fun in this rollicking, honky-tonk favorite is in its musical variation on “puff puff pass,” as Nelson intros the song then steps ...

Country’s Riley Green will play Pinnacle Bank Arena on Nov. 20, the penultimate date on his Damn Country Music Tour that ...

After recording two albums with an independent label as a kid, Rimes got her big shot when she was signed to Curb Records, ...

The legend starts back in April of 1982. A man walks into the office of Space Age Marketing, a Nashville-based marketing ...

Talladega is 2.66 miles of asphalt foolishness. The banked turns were designed at 33-degree angles, meaning, when you're ...

It's fairly common knowledge that Merle Haggard had a crush on Dolly Parton, but do you know how she discovered the news?

Haggard recorded four songs by Parton, including two he released before her, and one she wrote especially for him, and his ...

Headwaters Music and Arts will host an Open Mic and CoffeeHouse featuring Paul Olson at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 2, at Headwaters, 519 Minnesota Ave. NW. Olson, a Bemidji-based musician, traces his ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

Virginians can now hop aboard a vintage dome train car for a three-hour sightseeing excursion through the Blue Ridge ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.