On this day 58 years ago, one of the best country songs ever was officially released, becoming an immediate hit. July 22 ...
A statue of the late country music legend Merle Haggard will be unveiled in October followed by a tribute concert to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer. A statue of the late country music legend Merle ...
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 ...
"Okie From Muskogee" seems like the last song The Grateful Dead would cover, but maybe that's because they were in on the ...
Fifty-one years ago today, the country star who shaped the genre's future generations with his vocal style and songwriting.
When Merle Haggard died in April 2016, Keith Richards recalled the country music legend to Rolling Stone as a hard-touring singer-songwriter who “was on the road right until the end, because it’s just ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.
Fans of the popular Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline museums in Nashville are in luck: their operator is introducing a third offering — a Merle Haggard museum — in Nashville next summer. Bill and Shannon ...
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