Stereogum — Grinning Auto-Tunes sing-rapper Post Malone is the type of rapper who makes sure to point out how much he loves Hank Williams and Pantera, and he's been known to call his style "trap-folk." At live shows, he likes to pull out an acoustic guitar for a... more info

USA Today Music — D.L. Menard, who died last Thursday, had a final request for his funeral — no more 'Back Door.'             more info

New York Times — Mr. Menard’s song “The Back Door” is ubiquitous in Cajun music and has sold an estimated one million records. more info

411 Mania — He's baaack... more info

Stereogum — For years, the veteran country star Hank Williams Jr. opened every weekly broadcast of Monday Night Football with a new version of his legendarily cheesy party anthem "All My Rowdy Friends." But in a Fox & Friends appearance in 2011, Williams fumed a... more info

Detroit Free Press — Some say Williams died at the hotel, but in fact, he may have been inadvertently killed.             more info

USA Today Music — Some say Williams died at the hotel, but in fact, he may have been inadvertently killed.             more info

MSN Music — You knew from the get-go that Loretta Lynn wasn't too keen on her landmark 85th birthday. "Don't sing 'Happy birthday,' " the country legend commanded her audience after her first four songs at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Frid... more info

JamBase — Watch a new video for John Prine’s arrangement of Hank Williams’ “Just Waitin” off of last year’s covers album ‘For Better, Or Worse.’ more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — We’ve got bad news for Hank Williams Jr., who famously sang that “If heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t want to go.” Shangri-La, it turns out, more resembles California. The good news for Williams? Evidence cited ... more info