Legendary country singer Charley Pride attends the 54th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 11, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. He died a month later on Dec. 12, 2020, at age 86. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images) ...

Seven years ago he gave $120,000—most of it proceeds from an Austin concert—to residents after a fertilizer plant exploded in West, killing 15 people and injuring more than 250.

On Wednesday's "Opry 100" special on NBC, modern acts Aloe Blacc and the McCrary Sisters paid homage to Pride by singing his 1971 classic "Kiss an Angel Good Morning." ...

Two Texas musicians in different genres with a lot of Lone Star pride are hitting the road together. Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett are stopping at Austin's Moody Center on Tuesday, September 23.

Charley Crockett has been ready to rodeo for most of his life. He was born in San Benito, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley, and grew up in nearby Los Fresnos. He now calls the Austin area home.

Charley Crockett performs in concert during the "$10 Cowboy Tour" at Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park on September 06, 2024 in Austin Rick Kern/Getty Images ...

His first release after relocating to Austin was "Lil G.L.'s Honky Tonk Jubilee” (2017), a collection of classic country covers by the likes of Hank Williams, Tanya Tucker, and Loretta Lynn.

In all but five of those years, he had multiple. Charley Pride, here in 1998, was a Country Music Hall of Fame singer who rose from rural Mississippi to become the genre's first Black superstar.

Charley Crockett's story sounds larger than life, but the singer — who just released his 11th album in seven years — says, "Everything I ever said I am is true and then some." ...

Charley Pride — a sharecropper's son who rose from rural Mississippi to become the first Black superstar in country music — died Saturday at age 86. The "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin" singer died ...

Delight in the throwback country music of Brandy Clark and Charley Crockett. Delight in the throwback country music of Brandy Clark and Charley Crockett. Nashville-based hit songwriter Clark ...