Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Ely, the progressive country music pioneer and renowned Texas singer-songwriter, has died. He was 78. Ely died on Monday, Dec.

Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called "the greatest living songwriter," died Wednesday at the age of 81. His friend Connie Nelson said he died Wednesday in ...

Joe Bonsall, a singer who dedicated more than 50 years to the Grammy-winning country and gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, has died. He was 76. The tenor’s website announced in a statement that ...

Joe McDonald of Country Joe & the Fish has died at 84. His band provided one of Woodstock's famous moments, leading the crowd through the anti-Vietnam War song "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag." One ...

Joe Ely, the progressive country music pioneer and renowned Texas singer-songwriter, has died. He was 78. Ely died on Monday, Dec. 15, at his home in Taos, New Mexico, due to complications of Lewy ...