A bronze sculpture of Willie Nelson will be erected later this month in Austin, Texas.
Hip hop star Snoop Dogg faces a drug charge after border agents searched his tour bus along the same stretch of a west Texas highway where singer Willie Nelson was busted in 2010, a Texas sheriff said.
Just like the friendly pooch in Paul Rudd's new comedy, this retriever steals the show
Willie Nelson settled his latest pot bust with a plea deal that reduced the marijuana possession charge to possession of drug paraphernalia and imposed a $500 fine, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Legendary musician Willie Nelson talks with CNN's Larry King about legalizing marijuana. Also, golf and taxes.
Willie Nelson's latest pot bust could be settled for a song and $100, a west Texas prosecutor said.
Long before Willie Nelson anointed him "a true storyteller," Amos Lee taught second grade in his native Philadelphia -- but it doesn't seem to be an occupation he misses.
Singer-songwriter Amos Lee talks about his new album and how his grandfather inspired one of the songs.
People.com: Don Meredith Diesupdated: Mon Dec 06 2010 16:29:00
The legendary former Dallas Cowboys quarterback distinguished himself as one of the great voices of Monday Night Football
The country-music legend was booked Friday in Texas, and could face six months in jail
Farm Aid board President Willie Nelson is passionate about making an impact on the people who work the land.
"This echo is 'good,' " Neil Young said toward the end of his set at Farm Aid's 25th annual concert, which drew 35,000 to Milwaukee's Miller Park.
"Is my cigarette out of the shot?" asks John Mellencamp, as smoke curls around his tousled head. When asked why he even bothers to hide it, the singer replies sheepishly with a chuckle, "Cuz I don't want people to know I smoke."
John Mellencamp talks about his new album and says the Internet is the most dangerous invention since the atomic bomb.
The saddest-looking pair of black boots outside of a Goodwill bin sit in the corner of Dierks Bentley's dressing room at "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson." Are they cowboy boots or motorcycle boots? No one really knows, because the style is completely obliterated by four neatly-wound rows of black duct tape.
After spending an extra day in orbit, the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery landed Tuesday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
After spending an extra day in orbit, the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery prepared for a Tuesday morning landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida as NASA officials closely monitored weather conditions in the area.
From performing at the Grand Ole Opry to getting acknowledged by Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Jimmy Wayne and others reveal their star-defining moment
Jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis talks about the meaning of the blues, the legacy of racism, and lessons from his father.
Want to plunge into the modern American melting pot? Try the offices of Social Smoke, a hookah manufacturer in Arlington, Texas.
You can't get through a conversation with Jesse Dayton without hearing a reference to Texas at least once.
Texas country singer Jesse Dayton finds a whole new fan base working with Rob Zombie in 'Halloween II.'
The country signer spends her summer watching old movies and with her daughters
CNN's Brooke Anderson and Nicole Lapin discuss Billy Bob Thornton's evasive and confusing radio interview.
The flu has forced an early end to Billy Bob Thornton's musical tour of Canada, his publicist said Saturday.
A radio interviewer mentions Billy Bob Thornton's acting past during an interview with his band, and things head south.
Do not call Billy Bob Thornton an actor when you are interviewing him about his music.
On a bright Big Bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences. The sky above opens up its cobalt tent; the space beneath stretches as far as an ocean.
The singer's Farm Aid organization donates $30,000 to people in Texas and Louisiana
Willie Nelson doesn't croon about mamas making their babies grow up to be petroleum engineers. But perhaps he should.
Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who helped shape R&B
music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and made key recordings with Bob Dylan
and Willie Nelson, has died
"Swing Vote" hits on a premise even the average American voter will find hard to credit: a presidential election so close, it comes down to just one state, one county, one town and finally one ballot.
The rapper dedicates his "My Medicine" video to "real American gangster" Johnny Cash
The Olsens reportedly head to the Tennessee music fest for a rock-and-roll birthday
We hope your initial reaction to this story wasn't "Wait, when is tax day again?" If you haven't filed yet, you'd better hurry. You don't want to find yourself on this list next year.
Don't mess with Texas – or Jessica Simpson.
Turns out, with the Golden Globes canceled, the Polo Lounge was the place to be on Sunday night, as long as you're a fan of off-key singing and empty bars. Newlywed and former Saturday Night Live star Jimmy Fallon was joined by country music mega-star Tim McGraw in an impromptu, late-night, sing-a-long at the Beverly Hills Hotel bar.
If laughter is the best medicine, Owen Wilson is well on his way to recovery.
To country legend Willie Nelson, the sweet smell of success may no longer be a great critical review or best-selling album. It might be the smell of french fries.
Headline News' Robin Meade sings part of 'When the Sun Goes Down' with country star Kenny Chesney on stage in Atlanta.
I was strolling through the commotion of downtown Copenhagen, past chain restaurants dressed up to look old, and under towering hotels that seem to be part of a different international chain each year. Then, as if from another age, a man pedals his wife on a Christiania Bike -- two wheels pushing a big utilitarian rounded bucket. You'd call the couple "granola" in the USA -- they look as out of place here in Copenhagen as an Amish couple in Manhattan.
The youngest of Al Gore's three daughters, Sarah Gore, 28, married businessman Bill Lee in Beverly Hills on Saturday, family spokesperson Kalee Kreider confirms to PEOPLE.
At dusk, stand on the Congress Avenue bridge over Town Lake, the span linking hip downtown to funkier South Austin, and you'll see it.
The official mascot of the University of Virginia is the musketeer-like Cavalier, but unofficially it's the wahoo, a fish that, according to student legend, can drink twice its weight in a day. That's probably not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he designed U.Va.'s elegant neoclassical brick buildings and colonnades.
Will Rogers said, "You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people."
For composer John Williams, getting into a cummerbund Sunday night will mean buckling up for a familiar ride. His Academy Award nominations for "Munich" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" are his 44th and 45th.
Fortune: Fill 'Er Up, Willieupdated: Mon Jan 30 2006 11:25:00
FORGET "WHISKEY RIVER." WILLIE NELSON has a new fuel of choice. He is rollin' toward California "about an hour west of Large Bird, N.M.," on his tour bus. That's apropos, actually, because he's talking about biodiesel, a mix of regular diesel and refined vegetable oil that happens to be the fuel in the bus. Nelson is America's foremost proponent of biodiesel, most visibly as the marketer of a brand called BioWillie. It's for sale at 12 gas stations, the majority in Texas, including his own truck stop, Carl's Corner in Hillsboro, south of Dallas.
"The Dukes of Hazzard" is a prime example of a sad Hollywood habit: taking a popular -- but rather dumb -- TV show and turning it into a totally stupid and meaningless film.
CNNMoney: Extreme savings 101updated: Mon Jan 10 2005 18:13:00
Learning how to be cheap, or just cheaper, won't make you a miser.
It's not "The Phantom of the Opera,"' but when the Democrats open their national convention in Boston on Monday they will be putting on a production every bit as choreographed and rehearsed as a Broadway show.
Finally, the day we've all been waiting for. At 1 p.m. ET Monday, we'll learn his choice for vice president.
From Buddy Holly to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Texas musicians have often been like a bolt of lightning in musical history. Now, three brothers from the tiny Texas town of San Angelo are beginning to strum themselves a spot in the history books.
Fortune: Dear Mr. Presidentupdated: Mon Mar 05 2001 00:01:00
You're probably too busy to be homesick yet, but every Texan knows that moment will come. When it does, a little Texas music will help. This should hold you for a while--and when you want more, you...
If anyone has a right to the blues, it's Willie Nelson. At 67, the red-headed stranger from Abbott, Texas, can look back on a string of life lessons learned the hard way: failed marriages, record-l...
Mandy Barnett I've Got a Right to Cry Sire Records
What can you do to me now That you haven't done to me already? --Willie Nelson
On Nov. 9, the Wrestler Formerly Known as Hulk Hogan announced his candidacy for President in 2000. FORTUNE's Daniel Roth got a peek at the Hogan platform:
MAMAS, don't let your babies grow up to buy tax shelters. Willie Nelson should know. The country-western singer has paid more than $8 million in federal income taxes since 1982, but the IRS says th...
ROSS PEROT is giving away his $2.5-billion fortune. He says it is all going to charity, ''the best and highest use.'' Over the past two decades he has parted with more than $100 million, and in the...
MENTION WILLIE NELSON, Dolly Parton, or the group Alabama to a country and western music fan, and bells will ring. Mention Frances Preston, and not even a two-note pedal-steel riff will sound. Yet ...
MENTION WILLIE NELSON, Dolly Parton, or the group Alabama to a country and western music fan, and bells will ring. Mention Frances Preston, and not even a two-note pedal-steel riff will sound. Yet ...
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