Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard were nearly finished recording the album, but didn’t feel like they had a big hit single. According to Songfacts, Nelson’s daughter, Lana, came up with the answer. She ...

The legendary Willie Nelson is paying homage to another outlaw country legend in a new studio album out Friday, November 7. Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle will contain 11 tracks on which Nelson ...

Preparing to enter his seventh decade in the music industry, 92-year-old country music and American icon Willie Nelson is releasing his 78th solo album. "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle" arrives on ...

More than three decades after Pancho & Lefty, the country titans pair up again, this time for an album that puts eclecticism front and center. Love your old uncles while you have them. Mine used to ...

Nelson reinterprets “Okie from Muskogee,” and some of Haggard’s other biggest hits, on the new 11-track LP, Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle. The pair toured and collaborated frequently, most notably ...

On this day in 1982, Willie Nelson was in the middle of a long run at No. 1 with his album, Always on My Mind. The LP topped the chart three times that year, spending a total of 22 weeks at the summit ...

Willie Nelson was already a celebrated voice in country music before recording a song made famous by Elvis Presley. The hugely popular track crossed over onto the pop charts and cemented Nelson’s ...