On Oct. 17, 1974, Willie Nelson took the stage at Austin PBS's Studio 6A to tape the inaugural episode of "Austin City Limits." The country music legend, dubbed "the patron saint of Austin" by today's ...

On October 17, 1974, renegade country music artist Willie Nelson taped the first episode of "Austin City Limits." The public television show aimed to tell the story of Austin music, and it made sense ...

The public television show aimed to tell the story of Austin music, and it made sense to kick things off with the man who was shaking up the city's scene. Tonight, the Red-Headed Stranger returns to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Willie Nelson was the first person to ever perform on Austin City Limits, laying the ground for the show that would become the longest-running music program in television history. That ...

Nelson will be playing the free outdoor concert with his family at Austin’s Long Center for Performing Arts overlooking the scenic shores of Lady Bird Lake, according to a news release from ACL. To ...

Willie Nelson has managed to faithfully record a 1980s classic. The country legend, 92, teamed up with former Journey frontman Steve Perry to do an updated rendition of the band’s massive 1983 hit ...

Willie Nelson had to bow out of much of the Outlaw Music Festival tour this year due to health issues. Fortunately, his son Lukas Nelson was more than capable of stepping up and taking over for him.

On Cruel Joke, Pomeroy, age 22, sings with an acoustic twang about farms and cowboys. The 92-year-old Nelson's Oh What a Beautiful World is an album of covers of songs by Rodney Crowell. This is FRESH ...

Back in 1974, Austin PBS wanted to produce a television program that focused on music called Austin City Limits. Although just a concept at the time, a pilot taped on October 17th of that year.

Today (July 16) marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, during which a team of U.S. scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico ...