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SO damn good. Earlier this year, Willie Nelson's son, Lukas, filled in for him during a couple weeks of his annual Outlaw Music Festival tour while his father was sick. Along with Willie's Family Band, Lukas ran through some of Willie's biggest hits and most beloved songs, from "On The Road Again" to my personal favorite, "Always On My Mind." But at a stop in Raleigh, he did an absolutely gorgeous medley of classics "Funny How Time Slips Away," "Crazy" and "Night Life." Of course, "Funny How Time Slips Away" was a solo write from Willie’s 1962 debut studio album, …And Then I Wrote, and was first recorded by Billy Walker in 1961. Elvis Presley also released a version of it in 1971 for his Elvis Country album. "Crazy" was made a massive hit by the one and only Patsy Cline, after Willie wrote it himself and Patsy's husband, producer Charlie Dick, famously took Willie to their house in the middle of the night to wake his wife up to listen to it, because he knew “Crazy” was a hit from the first time he heard it. She recorded it in 1961, and it shot to the #2 spot on the country charts in 1962, becoming an all-time standard and classic that is beloved by country fans to this day. "Night Life" was another solo write by Willie, which he sold to Paul Buskirk in 1960 for $150. It was ultimately a hit for Ray Price, who made it the title track to his 1963 album. That version peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and that same year, Doris Day also recorded the song for her Columbia Records album, Love Him. Many other artists also recorded it over the years, and in after releasing his own version in 1979, Willie's recorded ultimately peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1980. Clearly, they're all three classics, and some of the best music Willie ever made... and hearing Lukas sing them is something special too. In so many ways, his voice resembles his father's, obviously, but he's an extremely talented artist in his own right who you should definitely be listening to if you're unfamiliar with his music. Lukas most recently released an album called Sticks & Stones in 2023, and announced that he and his band would be on an indefinite hiatus going forward earlier this year. Since then, he's been teasing some solo stuff on Instagram that I am dying to hear, and hope that means he's been working on some new songs, or even a whole project, coming in 2025. I have been a fan of Lukas for a long time, and these are some of my favorite songs ever, so hearing this is truly magical and I can't get enough. Do yourself a favor and check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALsTO7XjLE Here's one Lukas shared recently that I am already obsessed with: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCmqNJ2x60p/ And how about a little bit of Kris Kristofferson... I could listen to him sing "Help Me Make It Through the Night" all day long, it's exceptional: https://www.instagram.com/p/DArcHIxSLwB/

Toby Keith was genuinely a national treasure. It's still hard to believe that the country music world - and the world at large - lost Toby Keith back in February of this year. The "American Soldier" singer passed away at the age of 62 after a long battle with stomach cancer. Now, we're closing in on the one year anniversary of his passing - which seems almost unfathomable. Tributes to the Big Dog Daddy have basically gone on ever since he passed on in February. The University of Oklahoma implemented a Toby Keith sing along at every one of their home football games, and that new tradition was most recently highlighted when country star Riley Green helped the crowd of 80,000 plus break into Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue." That's how you do a Toby Keith tribute by the way (I'm talking to you CMA Awards). Though we no longer have the country icon here with us on Earth, his spirit and his music will live on forever. That's been incredibly evident as country music stars have honored him by adding TK covers into their setlists, as well as all of the important work that the Toby Keith foundation has been able to do to help families that are fighting cancer. Toby Keith left behind a legacy as a singer, songwriter, performer, businessman, and entrepreneur. He truly built an empire that will stand the test of time, and in order for a person to do that, they have to be a pretty persistent and hard-working individual. Toby was certainly that, but as he explained on The Big Interview with Dan Rather back in 2018, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows when he was first trying to get started: "I was trying to get a record deal, and I had just been turned down by Capitol Records in Nashville. Very famous Rat Pack producer Jimmy Bowen had just turned me down and said, 'We've already got Garth Brooks, we're not looking for a male artist, and your songwriting... you need to go back to the woodshed.'" That's a tough message to hear from an aspiring artist, but Keith took that rejection to heart and whipped up a song not long after that. You may have heard of it... it was called "Should've Been A Cowboy." It's famously documented that Toby Keith wrote "Should've Been A Cowboy" in 20 minutes after he watched his hunting buddy get rejected at the bar. Once the country music industry got ahold of that song, Toby Keith was well on his way to being a star. But he never got complacent, and was always working to hone and improve in his craft. Keith said that all came from a mindset he adopted from the get-go: "Work ethic. I'm from Oklahoma, and it was the work ethic that was put in. It was like, 'They might out-write us, they might out-sing us, and they might out-play us, and they might out-sell us. But they can't out-work us.'" Hope you are taking notes as you are reading this. If you are, make sure to write down this next quote from Toby Keith. It's one to live by for sure, and explains why the Big Dog Daddy and the music that he shared had such a big impact on the world: "If you work every day of your life, you'll get luckier and you'll be more productive. I just put my nose to the grindstone and had a lot of luck and a great fanbase." Love that. We can all learn a little bit (or a lot) from that perspective, and I'll speak for all of us when I say that thank God Toby Keith worked hard enough to get luckier and more productive - otherwise we would have all been sh*t out of luck. R.I.P. Big Dog Daddy: https://youtu.be/CaqecV3kSro?si=pXCZIpmEqRgzZWAI&t=77