July 12, 2012 Always willing to try something different, Willie Nelson mixed two of my favorite musical genres, Country and Reggae. No surprise, the album "Countryman" was met with some controversy.
July 3, 2012 "A touring Country star", not a big stretch for Willie Nelson. Honeysuckle Rose is still one of my favorites.
June 28, 2012 It didn't mean much to me but millions of female country music fans were pretty fired up when Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney debuts his butt on national TV.
June 16, 2012 You can't say the words "Rub It In" without the song starting up in your head. The Man that made that phrase famous was born this day in 1939.
June 10, 2012 On this day in 1978, Willie Nelson's remake of Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia On My Mind" tops the Billboard country chart. Click through to see Willie and Ray Charles do the song the way it's supposed to be done.
Toby Keith, Zac Brown Band, Jamey Johnson, Darius Rucker and Willie Nelson all have one thing in common: country music (Hey — if there’s something else, we don’t know about it). The country supergroup took the stage halfway through the 2012 CMT Music Awards to perform Nelson’s ‘Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.’
Dierks Bentley, Willie Nelson, the Civil Wars and Rosanne Cash are all set to perform at the second annual Johnny Cash Music Festival. The event is scheduled to take place on Friday, Oct. 5 in the Man in Black’s home state of Arkansas.
May 21, 2012
2008 - Capitol releases Darius Rucker's first country single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It," to radio.
2002 - DreamWorks releases the self-titled debut album by Emerson Drive.
May 10, 2012 The great Gary Stewart has a catalog of great songs but he was only able to achieve one #1. It happened this day in 1975, do you know what it was?
May 8, 2012 The Kicks 105 Goldmine show on Saturdays features great classics like the 2 songs that hit #1 for Willie Nelson on this day in country music history. Technically they are Willie songs but the first of the two was performed by Faron Young! "Hello Walls"
April 30, 2012 I was raised on the music of Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings so today is a special day for me and Country music fans everywhere. Happy Birthday Willie! He is 79 today.
April 24, 2012 2011 - John Rich wins $20,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the winning manager for a four-page Trump Collection advertising presentation on NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice".
2008 - Toby Keith has a performance at a base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, interrupted by mortar fire as he plays for 2,500 troops in his sixth USO tour
