Jun 11, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

August pop artists put their stamp on the American Songbook all the time now but Willie Nelson made it popular with 1978's Stardust. After a spot at #1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart and Country Male Vocal Performance Grammy, years later it still shines as an exemplar in any genre. On August 25th, legendary singer Willie Nelson will try to recapture some of that Stardust magic with American Classic, his first LP of standards in over 30 years. More

Jun 02, 2010 By J. Pace

As Willie Nelson himself puts it in the press release: "This is my definition of real country music." This is handy information, since followers of Nelson have witnessed about a hundred definitions of country music—the '60s songwriter who wrote "Crazy," the '70s progressive strains of The Red Headed Stranger, the glitz of Stardust, the very modern Teatro, or the inevitable reggae album Countryman, just to name a few. More