The tribute concert “Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard” assembled a cross-genre army of Haggard fans to interpret the late country legend’s most famous songs. Keith Richards, John ...

One afternoon in a Hollywood studio produced a song that would change his career—and country music—with almost no one ...

Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard's death yesterday (April 6) impacted more than just the country-music community. His influence reached deep into the rock realm, too. The boys from Jacksonville, Fla., ...

Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation and imprisonment to become one of the enduring figures in hardcore country music, died Wednesday morning (April 6). By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, ...

A chart-topping country song told the touching story of a family whose determination helped them overcome extraordinary challenges.

He was best known for such patriotic hits as "Okie From Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me" Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ ...

Merles brother, Lowell, and his sister, Lillian, were teenagers when his mother, Flossie, found out she was pregnant with Merle. "She sort of was embarrassed about it", Haggard says. "The children ...

Merle Haggard, the former San Quentin inmate whose resonant baritone, songs about the hardships of ordinary people and devotion to the traditions of country music put him in the pantheon of American ...

This isn't the best Merle Haggard take I've ever seen... but it is the worst Merle Haggard take I've ever seen. When ...

Author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The writer's exposure to music, ...