The national treasure is even headlining an online benefit concert this evening.
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Lizzo and Gary Clark Jr., who each took home three awards, delivered searing performances along with Demi Lovato and Tanya Tucker.
On the National Podcast of Texas, the author of 'When Angels Sing' and the co-founder of the Nobelity Project on the spirit of Christmas, global philanthropy, and casting Willie Nelson as Santa Claus.
Forget the tortured artist clichés. The critically acclaimed musician began making the best albums of his life when he settled in Texas and decided to try being happy.
The pair have been inseparable for decades.
The country star's Christmas show premieres later this week.
Kacey Musgraves and Maren Morris took home some of the biggest awards of the night.
The story behind the story behind Austinite Mike Shea’s three seconds of international fame.
The ’Country Music’ documentarian on the Outlaws, forgotten forces, and how Texas country music could bring us all together.
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the music legend details his lifelong love for westerns and his family’s golden rules.
We watched the recently restored 1986 film with Willie Nelson and fans in Luck, where it all happened.
I spoke to the man who shot the photo that inspired the song covered on Willie Nelson’s new album. (He’s my dad.)
The Red Headed Stranger honors his fellow Texas troubadour with two tracks on his new album.
Yes, we’re taking this week’s overblown Twitter fight way too seriously.
The singer takes about fifty people to church on his Luck Ranch to listen to 'Ride Me Back Home' and share a few stories.
“It’s really out of control. It’s bad,” said one official of the surge in families streaming across the border.
Somehow, it took until 2019 for this to happen.
And it's strangely bipartisan! Really!
And it wasn't just because of Willie Nelson. We spent time on the ground at Austin's Auditorium Shores on Saturday night, and here's what we found.
On this week’s podcast, Andy Langer talks with the Asleep at the Wheel leader about the tricky intersection of music and politics.
The Red-Headed Stranger announced he’d be playing a rally for Beto O’Rourke. What happened next was predictable.
Willie Nelson, Leon Bridges, Post Malone, Shakey Graves, and Okkervil River all put out new records in an eight-day span.
If anybody deserves two cakes, it’s Willie.
The music icon talks to us about how he’s able to continue writing—and touring—well into his eighties.
Willie says goodbye to his friends, and acknowledges that hanging around beats the alternative.
The legacies of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Jerry Jeff Walker, and more will be on full display.
The exclusive clip comes from PBS’s 'The American Epic Sessions,' which premieres tonight.
The honky-tonk celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary with two Texas country icons.
The song is brutal, but at least Willie’s still around to sing it.
Generations of Willie devotees came together to revel in music and good times with the Red Headed Stranger in his own backyard.
Both have expressed liberal viewpoints, but there's a key difference in delivery.
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Took ’em long enough, but the Library of Congress awarded Willie Nelson the Gershwin Prize.
Learn the secret history of Robin Wright’s childhood, and how 7-Eleven inadvertently helped birth the margarita machine.
Texas’s favorite octogenarian looks like a spring chicken next to his longest-tenured roadie.
A pair of spirited Texans joined forces to bring us the technological breakthrough we didn’t even know we needed.
Only question is, how did it take him so long?
Buffalo may not be geared for Willie and Paul, but everywhere from Fargo to Kankakee to Tucson to Birmingham is.
A short documentary by Rolling Stone, narrated by Woody Harrelson, affirms how essential the Martin classical guitar is to Willie Nelson’s sound and persona.
Lone Star was just a brew for dads and cowboys, until Jerry Retzloff helped turn it into the coolest beer in the country.
. . . which were formerly owned by Waylon Jennings. Do you want them?
After a new campaign in Colorado has literally made Dowd the poster child for how not to consume legal marijuana, she turned to the nation's most beloved expert for advice on how to do it right—and shared what she learned in the pages of the Grey Lady.
Texas’ favorite octogenarian is taking his grandpa game to the next level.
Can you think of a better way to spend your Monday?
Though advertised as a Honeysuckle Rose, the bus that recently sold in Whitehouse, Texas for $100,000, belonged to drummer Paul English.
The beleaguered theme park strikes back at its critics with a series of videos—but given their attendance, did they need to?
It doesn't get any more Kinky Friedman.
Corn maze + Willie's braids and guitar = pure Texas.