Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers. "I was practically a non-entity," Carter says in the film Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President. "But everyone knew the Allman Brothers. When they endorsed me ...
Jimmy Carter, the former US president who died on December 29 at age 100, was a lifelong music fan, inspired and deeply moved by his era’s rockers, gospel singers and country songwriters, who ...
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are two of the most celebrated and prolific songwriters in their respective genres. Both have inspired artists with their words and deeds over the course of a pair of ...
Jimmy Carter loved musicians, and they loved him. He had decades-long friendships with Gregg Allman, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. When his longshot bid for the presidency was running out of money ...
A Horse Named Music, which went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart, featured another No. 1 for Nelson, “Nothing I Can Do About It Now,” and “There You Are,” which peaked at ...
At Freddy Fletcher's property, there's a wall paying tribute to lives well-lived: photographs, records and newspaper clippings that honor the work of his legendary uncle Willie Nelson and his ...
No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, Bible-inspired words of Jimmy Carter.
With more than six decades of making music, and more than 100 albums released during that time, it’s not easy paring down to Willie Nelson’s most essential tracks. And no discussion of the ...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter danced to a live band at the Inaugural Ball in 1977. At the inauguration ceremony, Linda Ronstadt performed a cover of Willie Nelson's "Crazy," and Aretha Franklin ...
Jimmy Carter revealed in the documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President that Chip and singer Willie Nelson smoked marijuana on the White House roof. “When Willie Nelson wrote his ...
Jimmy Kimmel addressed the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday night’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and noted how odd the ceremony turned out to be — just as “our long ...
The Jimmy Butler-Heat saga has taken yet another turn. Less than 24 hours after he said he would “probably not” have “joy” by continuing to play for the Heat, the team suspended him on ...