Fifty-seven years ago today, Merle Haggard walked into a Los Angeles recording studio to cut one of his most memorable songs.

One of Merle Haggard's all-time favorite singers has a surprising connection to The Goo Goo Dolls. Small world indeed.

Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than 100 country hits (38 No. 1s), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of 10,000 concerts, induction ...

Flawless. Back in 2010, Merle Haggard was part of the Kennedy Center Honors class, and of course, some of his fellow country ...

A raw, unfiltered portrait of working-class America at Christmastime—one that still resonates just as deeply half a century ...

Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out ...

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Nine tracks from ...

Preparing to enter his seventh decade in the music industry, 92-year-old country music and American icon Willie Nelson is releasing his 78th solo album. "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle" arrives on ...

When Merle Haggard visited the Alberta Bair Theater last February, tickets sold out in under three hours and he got a standing ovation before he'd even sung a note. The much-deserved praise was fueled ...

Tim McGraw is ushering in the holiday season with a timely cover of a classic Merle Haggard song, "If We Make It Through December." "Little Holiday song to get us in the spirit. Here’s one of my ...

Kansas City author David Cantwell, who just published a new version of a book he wrote years ago, says Merle Haggard was 'constantly singing about the things that we're still arguing about today.' ...