Rolling Stone — Last night’s Kennedy Center Honors was easily the strangest in its 31-year history. In a first, Washington’s most glitzy event celebrated a legendary rock act. Along with musicians George Jones and Barbra Streisand, actor Morgan Freeman and chore... more info

Yahoo! Music — AP - Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back. more info

New York Times — Celebrities came to Washington to pay tribute to Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp and Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of the Who. more info

AP - Barbra Streisand is visiting the White House on Sunday but says she'll play nice. "Art," she says, "transcends politics this weekend." more info

Six recipients of Kennedy Center honors, including Barbra Streisand, are visiting the White House this weekend. more info

Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood hauled in awards in the country category at the American Music Awards on Sunday. Jerry Jeff Walker warmed the crowd for George Jones on Saturday night in Grand Prairie, TX and 30 minutes ... more info

Guardian Music — In the early Sixties the young George Ivan Morrison briefly played saxophone in a Belfast showband called the Olympics. Once, before a gig in Derry, the band's minibus pulled up outside his house on Hyndford Street, east Belfast and lead singer Alfie... more info

Mindy McCready is getting out of jail today after serving just half of her 60-day sentence. Speaking of sentences, TMZ says she read enough of them to finish two books while in the slammer–no word on which books, though. Trace Adkins, George Jones ... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — George Jones, 77, is on a roll again, riding high in the wake of a new album of previously unreleased duets, Burn Your Playhouse Down, and his selection as a recipient this year of a Kennedy Center Honour. more info

Idolator — Our look at the closing lines of the biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Little Honey, the new album from perennial rock-critic favorite Lucinda Williams: • "The closest she gets to real country, in fact, is a duet wi... more info