Elvis Presley hit the top 20 on the country music charts in the early 1970s with a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song written a decade earlier. Nelson penned "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961 during a ...

But the Countrypolitan sound was starting to develop a decade earlier by the early ’60s with more produced, pop-leaning songs from Nelson-penned Patsy Cline hit “Crazy” and Conway Twitty’s transition ...

In these days of deep division, most people can agree that Willie Nelson is a national treasure. Along with his vocals on songs like “Always On My Mind” and “On the Road Again,” we’ve come to embrace ...