Merle Haggard had a rough start in this world. First of all, he was born during the final years of the Great Depression, and soon after, his father died when Haggard was around nine years old. As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

Merle Haggard was one of the greatest country singer/songwriters to walk the earth. He was also one of the only (reformed) criminals in the Outlaw Country movement. Haggard also helped to bring the ...

If songs like “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” painted Merle Haggard as a troubled, steel-nerved poet for the Everyman, then songs like “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” were songs that added an ...

In the early 1970s, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard toured together and often ended up in close quarters, hanging out on one another’s tour bus, playing cards, talking about life and the music business ...

Take a pinch of every song Merle Haggard has written, put it in a huge black pot, and simmer over an open fire until well blended. The result: the embryonic stage of the persona of Merle Haggard. The ...

On February 9, 1969, Waylon Jennings‘ band member Walter “Chuck” Conway was killed, and another Rags Allen was badly injured when their camper crashed en route to a show in Illinois. At the time, ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer’s anthems as his walk-up music ...