Some of the top names in country and roots music have joined forces for Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, due Nov. 11 from New West Records and Pedernales Records. The album was produced by Charlie Sexton and Freddy Fletcher and is led by Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams’ cover of Shaver’s “Live […]
Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson and Family, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will headline the inaugural Palomino Festival, which will be held July 9 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The event is the brainchild of promoters Goldenvoice, the same team behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its […]
Now you know everything is back. Willie Nelson‘s Luck Reunion is returning to the rolling hill country just outside of Austin on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17 if you don’t know)for its 10th edition. The Luck Presents event will gather more than 40 musical acts and will take place on Thursday, Mar. 17. The star-studded […]
Like the “ethical” (their word) psychotropic drug industry, the music recording business exists to discover, refine, and distribute new product to alter minds and enhance well-being. So when a euphoric sound makes its way into anyone’s ears — let alone the best new music I heard in years — without the benefit of professional dispensers […]
The Willie Nelson Family just released a cover of George Harrison’s legendary track “All Things Must Pass.” The cover debuted on the radio station dedicated to the quiet Beatle, Dark Horse Radio, and on SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel and Willie’s Roadhouse. Preceding the family’s new studio album The Willie Nelson Family, the track is the […]
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, […]
Eddie Vedder and his wife Jill will be joined by celeb friends for Venture Into Cures, a one-hour virtual event that will see the Pearl Jam frontman perform two new songs — “Matter of Time” and a new version of “Say Hi” — inspired by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare genetic connective tissue disorder. The […]
Though Barack Obama has shown time and time again that he knows music, debatably the first music-minded president was Jimmy Carter. The title for an upcoming documentary about the former president, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, shows on a grand scale as much. Carter’s lifelong love of music is on full display in the documentary’s latest […]
First Aid Kit are looking back on what tour life on the road was like in their new video for “On The Road Again.” Johanna and Klara Söderbergtook put their own harmonic spin on the 1980 Willie Nelson classic, which they recorded more than seven years ago. Read First Aid Kit’s statement about the track […]