Johnny Bush, the Texas-based singer-songwriter best known for writing the Willie Nelson classic "Whiskey River," has died. Multiple media outlets report that Bush died on Friday (Oct. 16) at the age ...

It was one of the cruelest jokes the country music fates ever played on a performer, in this case a journeyman Texas dance hall musician on the verge of becoming a national superstar. By the time ...

Johnny Bush, the country singer-songwriter best known for writing Willie Nelson's hit "Whiskey River," has died. He was 85. Bush's manager confirmed his death to Rolling Stone and his date of death ...

Johnny Bush, the Texas country-music veteran who co-wrote Willie Nelson‘s signature opening number “Whiskey River,” has died at 85. Bush’s manager confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Born ...

Brash country performer and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Bush, a one-time star who penned Willie Nelson's classic ""Whiskey River,"" recounts the early days of Texas honky-tonk in this ...

With more than 30 albums under his cowboy belt, Johnny Bush decided some of the hundreds of songs he has recorded did not get enough love. So he knocked the dust off a slew of them and headed into BGM ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KTRK) -- Johnny Bush, the singer and songwriter known for his distinctive operatic voice and for writing the top-10 hit "Whiskey River," has died. News of Bush's death was shared ...

Johnny Bush, a Texas singer whose rowdy honky-tonk hit “Whiskey River” became a signature song for his friend Willie Nelson but whose own career was interrupted by a neurological condition that robbed ...

Texas country music great Johnny Bush, who co-wrote “Whiskey River” — the song Willie Nelson has used to open his concerts for decades — died Friday afternoon at age 85. A post to Bush’s official ...

Imagine for a moment if Johnny Bush hadn't enjoyed his own moment of country music stardom in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And imagine if he hadn't endured an unthinkable crisis in which his voice ...

Whiskey River became a trademark song by Bush’s friend Willie Nelson, who still opens his concerts with it. In a 1997 Eagle interview, Bush commented on Nelson’s affection for the song: “It’s kind of ...

Johnny Bush, a Texas singer whose rowdy honky-tonk hit "Whiskey River" became a signature song for his friend Willie Nelson, but whose own career was interrupted by a neurological condition that ...