On this day (July 18), in 1980 Willie Nelson released the classic album Honeysuckle Rose. The album served as the soundtrack for the film of the same name which starred Nelson and released the same ...
According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Written by Fred Rose in 1945, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" had been recorded by many artists over the years—including Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Ferlin ...
Willie Nelson certainly knows how to pen an enduring classic, but he also has a knack for putting his own spin on other artists’ songs to the level that his version becomes the definitive one. Though ...