Free Willie!
After a 50 year investigation, Operation Follow Willie Nelsonâs Tour Bus has finally produced results:
Willie Nelson and some friends were cited yesterday for illegal music downloading marijuana and mushroom possession.
After a 50 year investigation, Operation Follow Willie Nelsonâs Tour Bus has finally produced results:
Willie Nelson and some friends were cited yesterday for illegal music downloading marijuana and mushroom possession.
When renowned R&B producer Dallas Austin was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a Dubai prison for cocaine possession, he found an unlikely advocate in Republican Senator and Christian music composer Orrin Hatch, according to the New York Times:
The release of a music producer from a Dubai jail this week, quick on the heels of his conviction for drug possession, turns out to be a story of high-level string-pulling on the part of Mr. Hatch, the conservative Utah Republican and songwriter, along with Lionel Richie, the singer; Quincy Jones, the music entrepreneur; and an array of well-connected lawyers, businessmen and others, spanning cities and continents.
And it gets better: