JamBase — Yonder Mountain String Band teamed up with Horseshoes & Hand Grenades for covers of "Good Hearted Woman" and "Ooh La La" during their encore on Friday night in Minneapolis. more info

Totally Fuzzy — …In Kevin Welch‘s fabulist retelling of the past, everybody and everything is tormented by its existence no matter one’s holiness, power, or inorganic composition. Like Aesop, Welch’s story has a moral but as this is a song ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In 1976, “Wanted! The Outlaws,” featuring Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser was released by RCA Victor. It would become the first country music album to be certified platinum — an achievement which its... more info

Topix — Longtime local DJ and Arizona music historian John Dixon - best known around town as Johnny D. - recently founded the Floyd and Mary Ramsey Annual Scholarship Fund. The $10,000 gift will benefit the Phoenix Conservatory of Music , which will receive ... more info

Topix — Randy Scruggs, a Grammy-winning musician who carved out a successful Nashville career separate from that of his father, banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, died Tuesday after a brief illness, according to The Tennessean . He was 64. After launching his caree... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Dedicated record heads will certainly recognize some of the names on the tracklist of Mid-Century Sounds: Deep Cuts From the Desert, a new 2xlp survey of southwestern sounds: country star Waylon Jennings, rockabilly king Sanford Clark, and Wrecking C... more info

Stereogum — Brad Pitt is in the midst of divorcing Angelina Jolie, and he's turned to sad music and sculpture to help himself cope during this time. While in March he was holing himself up in a friend's art studio for 15-hour days of "Waylon Jennings' 'Just To S... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — It’s no surprise to discover that Maren Morris, who grew up in Arlington, Texas, smack dab between Dallas and Fort Worth, took to music with an approach shaped to a large degree by the outsider attitude of Texas mavericks such as Willie Nelson... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It’s no surprise to discover that Maren Morris, who grew up in Arlington, Texas, smack dab between Dallas and Fort Worth, took to music with an approach shaped to a large degree by the outsider attitude of Texas mavericks such as Willie Nelson... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Country vet Jessi Colter is best known for her collaborations with husband Waylon Jennings (who died in 2002) as well as her 1975 hit "I'm Not Lisa." She has had a long career, however, as a songwriter, penning songs for Dottie West, Nancy Sinat... more info