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Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson don't get together as much as they'd like. When they do, something amazing usually happens.
Jamey Johnson, "Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran" (Mercury)
Hank Cochran was one of country music's greatest songwriters. He was also an opportunist, something Jamey Johnson discovered when he met him at a mutual friend's office several years ago.
It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.
The Railroad Revival Tour has run off the tracks.
Jamey Johnson sang at Hank Cochran's bedside in the hours before his death. Now he's showing his love for the legendary songwriter again.
Country legend Willie Nelson is on board for this year's Railroad Revival Tour.
Willie Nelson may have penned himself another classic and CMT Music Awards viewers will get a chance to judge for themselves.
Willie Nelson may have penned himself another classic and CMT Music Awards viewers will get a chance to judge for themselves.
A diverse all-star lineup will celebrate the 80th birthday of Johnny Cash with an April concert.
Lukas Nelson clearly remembers the conversation that launched him on the path to playing guitar for a living. Mr. Nelson was 10 or 11 and his father, Willie, was showing him a few things on the guitar. The son asked his father what he'd like for his upcoming birthday, and the answer changed Lukas Nelson's life.
Jamey Johnson is the young, wild-haired heir to country music's outlaw throne. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the enduring heralds of God's word through gospel music.
Members of country music icon Alabama recently reunited to record a track for the first disc of a new three-volume tribute to Waylon Jennings.
Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist.
Hank Cochran, a consummate songwriter who composed a string of country hits including "Make the World Go Away" for Eddy Arnold, died Thursday. He was 74.
"There's not a writer I think any more deserving than Hank Cochran to have an album done in the way that we did this one," Johnson said. "And the icing on the cake was the artists that stepped up and not only agreed to do it, but we were getting death threats from artists if we didn't put them on this album, you know? There would be hell to pay and we wasn't gonna have that."
"Oh, Hank was a lot of trouble, a lot of fun, a lot of everything," Johnson said. "I'm very grateful to have gotten to know him. There won't be another one. God only makes one of those."
