With the release of his latest family collaboration, Willie Nelson and the Boys (Willie’s Stash, Vol. 2), just around the corner, Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah got together to record some acoustic versions of songs featured on the album. The first of those videos, “Can I Sleep …
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Earlier this week, NPR reported that American Recordings and Universal Music had sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stormfront Radio, the weekly radio show for the white supremacist site Stormfront, over its regular use of Johnny Cash‘s cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” At the time, Rosanne Cash, the …
Read More »Ricky Skaggs Plots Return to Country With Rare Electric Show
It’s been 20 years since Ricky Skaggs performed a full concert of the Eighties hits that made him famous, like “Country Boy,” “Highway 40 Blues” and “Heartbroke.” The Kentucky native has been busy playing bluegrass music, often with his wife Sharon White, and carrying on the legacy of Bill Monroe, …
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