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 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]...
by Rolling Stone | Jan 15, 2021 | Music News
Country musicians Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs were reportedly presented with the National Medal of the Arts by president Donald Trump on Wednesday. The presentation took place on the same day the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump for a historic...