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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Willie Nelson‘s “iconic music and rebellious spirit” are the inspirations behind a new clothing and accessories collaboration with So-Cal lifestyle brand, Brixton. The Willie Nelson Collection, available to …

Willie Nelson and his family have released a gentle cover of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” featuring lead vocals by Willie’s son Lukas Nelson. The track appears on the country great’s new album The Willie Nelson Family, due out Friday, Nov. 19. With a loose arrangement that gives it …

Ed Bruce, the country singer-songwriter behind hits including “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” died Friday, January 8th in Clarksville, Tennessee, from natural causes, according to his publicist. He was 81. William Edwin Bruce Jr. was born December 29th, 1939, in Keiser, Arkansas, and raised in …

Willie Nelson‘s annual 4th of July Picnic is headed back to Austin, Texas, for its 46th installment this summer, with the soon-to-be 86-year-old joined by a lineup of artists that includes Luke Combs, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Alison Krauss. With roots dating back to Nelson’s first Independence …

Willie Nelson delivered a two-for-one performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, paying tribute to one of the all-time vocal greats and offering up a humorous, no-nonsense political protest song. Nelson opened his performance with a breezy, smooth “Fly Me to the Moon,” off his recent Frank Sinatra tribute album …

By the early Sixties Willie Nelson was gaining a sterling reputation as a songwriter, with massive hits by Patsy Cline (“Crazy”), Faron Young (“Hello Walls”) and Ray Price (“Night Life”), among others. After a few successes as an artist at Liberty Records, he signed with Nashville‘s RCA label, where producer …

Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Festival Tour is becoming a summertime tradition. Sturgill Simpson, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss and Old Crow Medicine Show are among the dozen or so acts who’ll join Nelson during the festival’s upcoming run. A summertime package tour that focuses not only on music, but also on …

Willie Nelson knows a thing or two about throwing a good party. He’s been hosting his annual Fourth of July picnics in Texas on and off since 1973, and for the past several years he’s taken to holding another in his literal backyard: the Luck Reunion. This year’s event, taking …

For many years, Willie Nelson worried that he wasn’t a great father. “I’ve been gone most of the time,” he admits of his grueling lifelong touring schedule. “They had their mother there, and I wasn’t there. So there were those situations, but that’s just the way it is.” But Willie’s …