Luke Bryan and Ella Langley, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Dan + Shay, and Carter Faith should have top spots on your holiday ...

The 91-year-old Abbott, Texas-born country songwriter and performer Willie Nelson is synonymous with good music. He, often with his nylon string guitar “Trigger,” has been playing tunes for fans since ...

If the stores filled with twinkling lights and Christmas displays still haven’t exactly moved you into the holiday spirit, ...

Tipping his cowboy hat to one of the greats, Merle Haggard.

This is FRESH AIR. Our rock critic, Ken Tucker, has been listening to new music, looking for something that's not just entertainment. He thinks he's found it in albums by two musicians, both of whom ...

When Stan Jones (1914-1963) was working as a park ranger in Death Valley, California by the late 1940s, he was also writing songs and would often sing one he had written, “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” ...

Deborah Sengupta Stith moved to Austin as a wayward liberal arts graduate in the ‘90s and promptly fell into the city’s music scene. She spent years haunting the city’s downtown watering holes, ...

Willie Nelson and his son Lukas Nelson are making country music history at the 2026 Grammy Awards.