Patsy Cline Recorded “Sweet Dreams” 28 Days Before She Died
On February 5, 1963, Patsy Cline walked into a Nashville studio and recorded a song about loving someone who was…
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The Promise Eddie Van Halen Made to Dimebag Darrell and the Guitar He Gave Him Instead
Every guitar hero has a hero of his own. For Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott of Pantera, that hero was Eddie Van…
Bob Dylan Called Johnny Cash “the North Star.” The 1969 Nashville Session Shows Why
Johnny Cash died on September 12, 2003. When Bob Dylan was asked for a statement, he did not offer a…
The Night Waylon Jennings Died, Willie Nelson Kept Singing, and the Poker Game Where Their Friendship Became a Song
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, Waylon Jennings died at his home in Chandler, Arizona. He was 64 years old. That…
How a Road Atlas and a Town Called Festus Helped Create George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s “(We’re Not) The Jet Set”
Some country songs come from heartbreak. Some come from a late night at a bar. “(We’re Not) The Jet Set”…
Tom Petty Closed His Final Concert With a Song From the Beginning
On September 25, 2017, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers reached the end of their 40th-anniversary tour at the Hollywood Bowl…
Johnny Cash Was Asked to Change One Word. Kris Kristofferson Was Watching From the Balcony.
In early 1970, the ABC television network had a problem with one word in a country song. The song was…
The Last Song on the Vaughan Brothers’ Only Album Was Called “Brothers”
Family Style ends quietly. After nine songs, the final track is an instrumental called “Brothers,” written by Jimmie Vaughan and…
Willie Nelson Was Ten When Music Started Paying Better Than the Cotton Fields
Long before the braids, the bandana and the battered guitar named Trigger, Willie Nelson was a red-headed boy in Abbott,…
The List Johnny Cash Wrote for Rosanne Cash on a Tour Bus, and Why She Waited 36 Years to Record It
In the summer of 1973, Johnny Cash’s tour bus was rolling through the South. His daughter Rosanne Cash, 18 years…