If you pick up one book about Texas this summer, let it be "Picnic: Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Tradition." Written by former American-Statesman journalist Dave Dalton Thomas, this entertaining ...

Anyone who’s spent a summer in Austin in the last 50 years or so has likely heard of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic.

Willie Nelson, a country music icon with a seven-decade career, is recognizable for hits "Crazy," "Highwayman," and "On the Road Again," among many others. Nelson, now 90 years old, is an ...

Willie Nelson is having a moment. Again. At 90, the legend is the subject of a new documentary. He has a new book, new recordings. And he's on the road again.

For those uninitiated, Trigger is Willie's beloved Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar, which he purchased in ...

FILE – Willie Nelson performs onstage during the Farm Aid Music Festival at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on Sept. 24, 2023. Willie starts with the words.

Willie starts with the words. It's one of the surprising revelations in Willie Nelson's new book, “Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs,” an examination of the 90-year-old ...

FILE - Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual GRAMMY Week Celebration in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2019. The country legend's new book, "Energy Follows Thought," gives ...

FILE - Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual GRAMMY Week Celebration in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2019. The country legend's new book, Energy Follows Thought, gives the ...