Country singer Harlan Howard once famously said all you need is "three chords and the truth." We kept thinking about that expression watching Lukas Nelson belt out a solo acoustic performance in the ...

HOUSTON — Music legend Willie Nelson lent his voice and his heart to a cause close to millions on Wednesday, joining MD Anderson Cancer Center as it launched a $2.5 billion philanthropic campaign to ...

Tipping his cowboy hat to one of the greats, Merle Haggard. This week, Willie Nelson released his new record Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle, which features 11 country classics penned by the Hag ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson both earn Grammy nominations for ...

Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle is a fitting farewell to the outlaw-country legend—and the bandmates Willie lost after recording it. Your opinion of Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle will depend on how ...

Music critic and author Geoffrey Himes took a daunting approach to writing his new Willie Nelson biography: Tell the story through decades of albums — and grade them. That meant going back and ...

It would be surprising if Lukas Nelson didn’t wind up making music. But it’s the path taken by the 36-year-old eldest son of Willie Nelson’s third marriage, whose first song, “You Were It” — written ...

Willie Nelson is one of the most beloved figures in American music. An outlaw-country star since the 1970s, he cemented his reputation on such albums as "Red-Headed Stranger," "Phases and Changes" and ...

A rumor that circulated online in October 2025 claimed country music icon Willie Nelson memorialized slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk in a song titled "Let's Make Heaven Crowded." Snopes ...

For his latest book, Geoffrey Himes, that longtime longbeard of the Baltimore music scene, took on the labor of chronicling and critiquing each of the 152 solo and collaborative albums from the long ...