Did these country songs from the 1960s predict the outlaw movement? If any songs are worthy of the "proto" prefix, it's these ...

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., ...

Presidential pardons are not unique to Donald Trump and rappers, as the notable predecessor to such cases is between Ronald Reagan and Merle Haggard. In March of 1972, Ronald Reagan famously pardoned ...

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

The tributes to country music legend Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, have been flooding in, with colleagues such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Hank Williams ...

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

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 ...

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The death of Merle Haggard on Wednesday marked the end of an era, or at least a piece of an era. At a moment when singers were beginning to use music as a class-conscious weapon, Haggard wielded it ...

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 ...

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy didn’t ...

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 ...