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

Detroit Free Press — The Beach Boys and Hank Williams Jr. pay a visit to metro Detroit this week.             more info

Aquarium Drunkard — In 1951, Hank Williams — one of the finest songwriters the USA has ever produced — shilled shamelessly for Mother’s Best, a Northern Alabama flour company. And thank the good lord he did. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have this treasure trove of rad... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Billy Bragg & Joe HenryFrom: Railway Stations, United StatesShine A Light – Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad, the new Billy Bragg album, a collaboration with US singer songwriter Joe Henry, will be released in September. I... more info

Uncut — Includes experimental music, the wisdom of John Lennon and an album of Hank Williams covers Includes experimental music, the wisdom of John Lennon and an album of Hank Williams covers The post The The’s Matt Johnson interviewed: “I was hallu... more info

Rolling Stone — The Hank Williams classic "Hey, Good Lookin'" turns 65 years old today. Released on June 22, 1951, the song was written that spring, during an airplane ride that found Williams sitting beside Grand Ole Opry members Little Jimmy Dickens and Minnie... more info

Rolling Stone — "It's like country and emo mixing perfectly, and I love it," Kacey Musgraves announced midway through her set, before calling co-headliner Conor Oberst onstage Saturday night at Brooklyn's Northside Festival in Williamsburg. Oberst then joined Musgra... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — To put it in the context with which it's associated, "Nashville" started out as Hank Williams and ended up as Hank Williams Jr. When this ABC series set in country music's capital premiered in 2012, it had some of the subtle realism and classic style... more info