Maybe it was too built up in reviews of Ego Trippin’, but after hearing Snoop Dogg’s new country single, “My Medicine,” I can’t figure out why anyone would look forward to hearing it unless they were being forced to review the album and pining for novelty. More »
Remember “Beer For My Horses?” It’s a song by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson about things were better back when we used to lynch troublemakers. The video, which plays like an episode of CSI with extra soul patch, was evidently enough of a hit that Toby’s going to make a movie based on it! And if you’re going to make a movie about a bunch of rootin’-tootin’ singers dishing out street justice, of course you’ll have to include Ted Nugent as Skunk Tarver, “an uppity, defiant, long-haired, over-the-top rock ‘n’ roll deputy sheriff in Jackson County, Okla., who loves bowhunting and guns.” The Nuge wrote all about it in his weekly column for the Waco Tribune.
As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to love Willie Nelson, the country legend is spending his free time filming public service announcements backing a “bill would make it a felony for anyone to sell, trade or transport dogs for the purpose of dogfighting” in Georgia. More »
Continuing to prove he’s the most gangsta septuagenarian with little girl braids in the music industry, noted midnight toker Willie Nelson has some harsh words for uptight squares who think all that pot smoking has dulled his senses. More »
– Willie Nelson won’t have to serve jail time for his pot-and-‘shrooms arrest last September; lawyers attribute the decision to one particularly compelling character witness. More »
Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at the new releases hitting stores on Tuesday. This week’s slate is curiously light on both holiday music–although we do kind of want to hear the Bootsy Collins Christmas album–but it has what may be a surefire No. 1 contender in the new collection of ’60s songs from Barry Manilow. (Hey, it worked for Rod Stewart.) We’ve already given you a chance to suffer through Playing With Fire; after the jump, we look at Manilow’s new full-length, as well as offerings from Deftones, Willie Nelson, Birdman & Lil Wayne, and Lady Sovereign.
