Country star Billy Joe Shaver has been indicted on aggravated assault and weapons charges in Texas for his part in a shooting incident in Lorena last year.

Of country music's redneck rockers, the duo Montgomery Gentry most willfully tip-toe the line between laudable rural pride and tired Southern stereotypes.

Emmylou Harris has often enjoyed observing the present through a filter that takes in the past. She sharpens that focus on ''All I Intended to Be,'' her first solo album in five years.

Nonesuch Records will release Emmylou Harris' new album All I Intended to Be on June 10. This is Harris' third release on Nonesuch and her first solo effort since 2003's Stumble Into Grace.

Veteran rocker John Hiatt is to be honored by the Americana Music Association (AMA) with a lifetime achievement award for his songwriting.

ZZ Top rocker Billy Gibbons is to wed a Texas couple in an IKEA furniture store on Valentine's Day. The couple, Paul Burgess and Patricia Calmers, won a contest for the all-expenses paid ceremony, which the "Legs" hitmaker will preside over in his capacity as an ordained Universal Life Church minister.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - John Carter Cash knows all about the pressure of following in famous footsteps. Not only was his father the musical legend Johnny Cash, his mom was June Carter Cash, a beloved member of the pioneering Carter Family.

Country singer Billy Joe Shaver's shooting of a man outside a Texas bar on Saturday was an unprovoked act of violence, according to witnesses. The victim Billy B. Coker, 50, and the witnesses both claim Shaver, 67, shot him in the face after verbally abusing him outside the Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in Lorena.

Police in Texas have issued an arrest warrant for country singer Billy Joe Shaver after he shot and wounded a man outside a bar on Saturday. Shaver's attorney Joseph A. Turner claims his client acted in self-defense after a drunk and aggressive stranger followed Shaver into the parking lot of Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in Lorena, brandishing a knife.

American country singer Billy Joe Shaver is set to be questioned by police after shooting and wounding a man outside a bar in Texas on Saturday. Shaver's attorney Joseph A. Turner claims his client acted in self defense after a drunk and aggressive stranger followed Shaver into the parking lot of Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in Lorena, brandishing a knife.