Shirley Kidd, a grandmother from Lakeland, is a big Willie Nelson fan. Unfortunately however, she was forced to miss his concert at The Florida Strawberry Festival earlier this year. Shirley (a.k.a. "Moo Moo") has been battling brain cancer. In-and-out hospital stays kept her from seeing Willie Nelson live. After learning of this, he sent Moo…
Eric Church, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith are among those being honored at this year's ACM Honors event in Nashville. The ceremony recognizes special honorees and off-camera category winners from the ACM Awards.
Willie is the man. Period. Admittedly I was worried when I heard he was cancelling a bunch of his Vegas shows. I'd never seen him perform live and his show at the Florida Strawberry Festival was just a few weeks away. But fortunately, as Willie Nelson sings in this song, he's still not dead.
Imagine for a moment ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and longtime guitarist for The Allman Brothers Warren Haynes reworking Merle Haggard's "Workin' Man Blues" into a truly bonafide blues tune in front of 18,000 Haggard fans and more than 20 of Haggard's closest musical compatriots.
We lost Merle Haggard a year ago today. Willie Nelson marked the occasion by releasing a music video for his tribute Merle called "He Won't Ever Be Gone." Watch for some really special clips of the two of them together.
