Willie Nelson is the writer behind some of country music’s biggest hits, including Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”, Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Paper”, Faron Young’s “Hello Walls”, and more. But perhaps surprisingly, ...

Revisit Willie Nelson’s 1976 Austin City Limits performance of “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and the song’s lasting emotional impact.

The country music heir treated fans to a stripped-down recording of one of two additional songs that were added to a special ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of how Willie got Trigger is pure country music lore. He was playing a gig at John T. Floore's Country Store in Helotes, ...

Willie Nelson has spent more than seven decades making music, but the country legend recently revealed there's one thing that will finally make him hang up his hat: when his beloved guitarTrigger ...

The article flashes back to Nelson’s early days as a young husband and father in the 1950s, recounting his time washing dishes, trimming trees, pumping gas, tooling saddles and going door to door ...

When most people think of outlaw country, they think of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe and Merle Haggard.

Willie Nelson, and specifically his life on the road, is the focus of a new opus profile in The New Yorker. The highlights are many, but Bob Dylan’s attempt to explain the appeal of Nelson stands ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. At ninety-two, the musical ...

In a revealing profile from The New Yorker, writer Alex Abramovich followed Nelson on tour this past year, chronicling the Texas legend's life on the road past and present. Abramovich also spoke to ...