We have read about author Larry McMurtry’s fixation with typewriters, and Babe Ruth’s dependence on a particular type of Louisville Slugger, but perhaps no one’s love for an object is deeper than ...

Willie Nelson’s longest-running current collaborator remains his guitar. Harmonica player Mickey Raphael is the last living, breathing member of Nelson’s classic Family band from the '70s, and has ...

Willie Nelson has spent more than seven decades making music, but the country legend recently revealed there's one thing that will finally make him hang up his hat: when his beloved guitarTrigger ...

Steve Gunn was an eighteen-year-old music lover partial to hardcore punk and rap when he bought his first Willie album, a used copy of Red Headed Stranger, at a Philadelphia record store in the ...

You don’t have to be a country music fan to appreciate Willie Nelson’s longevity and dedication to his craft. At 91 years old, many artists would have retired or passed away. Nelson, however, is still ...

In early 2023, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings paid Willie Nelson a visit at the latter’s Pedernales Studio. The two were going to cut a duet of a song Strings had just written, “California Sober,” ...

In a pre-dawn raid in November 1990, feds armed with warrants, padlocks, and chains seized everything Willie Nelson owned—his golf course, ranches, studio, all of it. Only one thing slipped through ...

Although singers in the past have offered tributes to Nelson and his legacy within country music, Green took it a step further by getting Trigger in on the action. For any fan of Nelson, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of how Willie got Trigger is pure country music lore. He was playing a gig at John T. Floore's Country Store in Helotes, ...