Sixty-three years ago today, the son of a country legend who followed in his father's footsteps a little too closely at times ...

If only Merle knew 'Swinging Doors' would end up being a classic country hit among other artists and fans 6 decades later.

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., ...

The legend of outlaw country didn't trust the government any further than he could throw them, but little green men in the ...

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 ...

Toby Keith once called this Merle Haggard hit “the original Angry American song”, and giving it a listen back, we can totally see why. On this day in 1970, Haggard topped the US Country chart with ...

Once again, the east side of Greeley is the place to be this weekend. There’s something for just about everyone — and you don ...

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 ...

In a strange turn of events, the top-selling Merle Haggard album on iTunes in the days immediately following his death is a collection of re-recorded versions of his best-known songs -- not the… By Ed ...

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 ...

Parton visited Redding again in December 1977 to perform two concerts that packed the Civic, with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder John McEuen opening, according to then Record Searchlight reporter John ...