Jewel Faye Smith was born in August 1943 and was singing professionally by age 12. She married three years later. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1967 and, through the help of Johnny Cash, was ...

“I’m for anything that gets you through the night,” said Frank Sinatra in a 1963 interview with Playboy, “be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.” In the interview, Sinatra goes on ...

As far as country songwriters go — or songwriters of any genre — Kris Kristofferson was among the most authentic. That’s a word that Nashville loves to freely toss around, but in the case of the Texas ...