Willie Nelson Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree from Berklee College of Music

Willie Nelson received an honorary Doctor of Music degree during the Berklee College of Music’s 2013 commencement on May 11. Berklee president Roger H. Brown presented the degree to Willie as well as fellow honorees Carole King and Annie Lennox.There were more than 1,050 graduates from 60 countries and 4,000 guests in attendance. Kris Kristofferson, [...] Read More

Jason Aldean, Guy Clark, Blake Shelton & More Announced as ACM Awards Off-Camera Winners

Today, the Academy of Country Music is announcing the winners of awards that will not be televised during the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, due to time constraints. The ceremony will be telecast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 8 p.m. live ET/delayed [...] Read More

Top 20 Songs About Honky Tonks

If you’re a country music fan, chances are you’ve found yourself at a Honky Tonk (like Rock A Billy’s in the photo above). Neon lights, jukeboxes, a live band and a bartender serving up whatever you want are essential — and it’s the music that makes the Honky Tonk experience complete. We searched high and [...] Read More

GAC Album Review: Hank Williams, Jr.’s Old School, New Rules

Never one to back down from expressing his opinion, Hank Jr. has a lot to say after his controversial Fox and Friends appearance in October 2011 and the subsequent end of his long-running relationship with ESPN’s Monday Night Football. On Old School, New Rules, Hank Jr.’s new project due in stores July 10, the 63-year-old [...] Read More

GAC Album Review: Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged

A self-described “country-Southern rock-bluegrass-reggae-jam record,” as Zac Brown told the Associated Press earlier this year, ZBB’s third major label album ventures into excitingly unchartered territory as the band takes its rightful place as one of the genre’s most unique and daring mainstream acts. Uncaged, due in stores July 10, was produced once again with Keith [...] Read More