The New Orleans Jazz Fest announced Friday that the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been added to this year’s lineup, stepping into the spot left by previously announced headliners Foo Fighters after that band canceled all their 2022 tour plans following Taylor Hawkins’ death. – Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, the …
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Willie Nelson will serve as the keynote speaker at the SXSW Online conference, set for March 16th to the 20th. For the second straight year, the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, won’t take place due to the coronavirus. In its absence, organizers have instead shifted to a …
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Bobbie Nelson will document her time playing in her sibling Willie Nelson‘s band for 47 years in the upcoming Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band, a co-written memoir with her younger brother Willie. The book, a collaboration with music biographer David Ritz, will tell the story …
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Winners in the country music, Americana/roots, and bluegrass categories were announced during the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon. Tanya Tucker won two awards, Best Country Album for While I’m Livin’ and Best Country Song for “Bring My Flowers Now.” “After almost 50 years in this business, after many …
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Two years ago, Willie Nelson delivered God’s Problem Child, a tragicomic heart-stopping meditation on the singer’s rapidly advancing age. A year later, he released an equally sturdy follow-up (2018’s Last Man Standing), and after detouring with his collection of Sinatra standards, the 86-year-old legend is back with Ride Me Back …
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