Louisiana's King of Honky Tonk Heaven Jimmy Swaggart was the last surviving musical cousins from Ferriday that included Jerry ...

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On this day (December 11) in 1977, Willie Nelson was inside the Enaction Truck Mobile Studio working on tracks for his next album, Stardust. Executives at Columbia were nervous about the release ...

According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Young was drafted into the Army in November 1952. While serving, he performed in recruitment programs and continued his recording career. He was discharged ...

Another honky tonk down. Over the past decade or so, lower Broadway in downtown Nashville has gone from small honky tonks playing country music to massive six-story entertainment venues named after ...

This historic town near Fredericksburg was made famous by the song "Luckenbach Texas" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson in 1977. But before that, it was the stuff of small-town legend. Local tales ...