Shaver left school after eighth grade to help his uncles pick cotton. Joining the U.S. Navy at 17, he bounced around various career paths before getting married and having a son, Eddy, in 1962. To ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shooter Jennings is a singer, musician, and the producer of Grammy-award winning albums for Brandi Carlisle and Tanya Tucker. At ...

When The Dukes of Hazzard premiered in 1979, viewers were introduced to Bo and Luke Duke, their orange Dodge Charger and the seemingly endless trouble waiting for them in Hazzard County. They were ...

On this day (August 14) in 1976, Waylon Jennings was at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with Are You Ready for the Country. It retained the top spot for 10 nonconsecutive weeks, making it one of ...

The remaining two Highwaymen are reuniting to pay tribute to a bandmate they lost 13 years ago. Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson are part of an all-star lineup of country acts who will perform ...

When country singer and “Outlaw” legend, Waylon Jennings, was still early in his music career, he played in Buddy Holly’s band. And he was even supposed to have a seat on the plane that went down with ...

Waylon Jennings died in 2002 at the age of 64, one year after being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Throughout his career, he remained an honest artist fighting to record his music the ...

Waylon Jennings’ grandson Whey has followed in the footsteps of the outlaw country legend in more ways than music — as he’s battled back from drug addiction to find sobriety! Having gotten clean four ...

Poker has a long Old West and cowboy history and that apparently includes some regular play among some of country music’s biggest names. WhiskeyRiff.com reflected recently on a game involving country ...

Despite being raised in Nashville, Shooter Jennings is a Los Angeles guy through and through. He started his first rock band, Stargunn, there, embedded himself in the city’s underground arts scene as ...