Sixty years ago today, Merle Haggard stepped into the studio to record a song that later became the first of many chart-toppers.

George Jones reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the final time in 1983 with "I Always Get Lucky with You."Merle Haggard wrote the song. Jones recorded it without kno ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-three years ago today, Merle Haggard shared his thoughts on the backlash the Chicks faced after making anti-war ...

PALO CEDRO, Calif. — Several fans lined Silver Bridge Road in Palo Cedro on Saturday to say one last goodbye to Merle Haggard, who died at home Wednesday from pneumonia at age 79. The private funeral ...

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 ...

Growing up in the South, there are certain names you’re inundated with so many times that they become intertwined with your own story — intrinsic to the chronicles of your coming of age. Merle Haggard ...

Since the release of his superb new album American Romance, Lukas Nelson has been fully in solo career mode, promoting the record with a headlining tour. But one consequence of a solo tour is the fact ...

Merle Haggard is, as the great Duke Ellington used to say, "beyond category." Like the best, he is a genre-defying artist. There is a strong influence of both jazz and blues in Haggard's work, though ...