by Rolling Stone | Jan 16, 2021 | Music News
On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden outlined a stimulus plan that included, among other things, increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Later the same night, Blake Shelton’s auspiciously titled new song “Minimum Wage” was released to the public — not...
by Rolling Stone | Jan 16, 2021 | Music News
Willie Nelson was a young country music and western-swing fan when he heard Frank Sinatra on the radio for the first time. “Though he was a million miles from western swing, he had a sweet swing of his own,” Nelson wrote in his book It’s a Long Story: My Life. “There...
by Rolling Stone | Jan 16, 2021 | Music News
Nashville duo the War and Treaty make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend, and deliver a moving, extended rendition of their piano ballad “Take Me In.” “I’ve seen our mothers cry within/From our parents who refuse to call us kin,” the husband-and-wife group’s...
by CMT News | Jan 16, 2021 | Music News
by Alison Bonaguro 17h ago Just when you think you know a guy, he throws out a list of musical influences that you never saw coming. So thanks, Morgan Wallen, for being a blessedly unpredictable. After his Tuesday night (Jan. 12) album release show at Nashville’s...
by CMT News | Jan 16, 2021 | Music News
by Alison Bonaguro 21h ago You want to feel hopeful about the future? Just take a look at Willie Nelson getting his Covid-19 vaccine. He did it via a drive-up service at the Family Hospital Systems in Texas, and according to the photos in their Facebook post, Nelson...
by Rolling Stone | Jan 15, 2021 | Music News
On Wednesday morning, Willie Nelson, 87, fired up his car at his Spicewood, Texas, ranch and headed to a drive-up clinic in nearby Cedar Park to receive his Covid-19 vaccination shot. “We’re lucky,” Nelson’s wife Annie tells Rolling Stone. “We made sure that [he]...
