The Pawhuska Western Swing Festival honors country music legend Hank Thompson’s 100th birthday with performances by local and international artists, celebrating Oklahoma’s rich Western swing heritage.

If you’re a fan of Willie Nelson, George Strait or Charley Crockett, cue up “The Wild Side of Life” on Sept. 3 to mark the 100th birthday of a fellow Texan who inspired them: Honky-tonk swing pioneer ...

After a blood-soaked odyssey across New York, Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) finally gets a little slice of paradise. At the end of “Caught Stealing” (now in theaters), dejected bartender Hank makes ...

The film, set for release on Aug. 29, stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who suddenly finds himself immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the 1990s.

It was May 3, 1952, and Kitty Wells had had enough. Country music promoters weren’t all that interested in boosting the careers of female singers, and the Nashville native (born Ellen Muriel Deason) ...

Henry George “Hank” Thompson died Dec. 8. He was best known as a radio personality who, for more than 40 years, chronicled and championed the pride, pitfalls and plight of the Black community.