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 ...

The best friends are the kind who will keep you humble when you need to be, and in the music industry, that sort of guidance and accountability can go a long way. As flashy as fame and fortune may be, ...

"Okie From Muskogee" seems like the last song The Grateful Dead would cover, but maybe that's because they were in on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

One afternoon in a Hollywood studio produced a song that would change his career—and country music—with almost no one ...

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.

Country music legend Merle Haggard died April 6 at the age of 79. His career spanned more than half a century, during which time he landed no fewer than 38 number-one hits on the US country music ...

The Bakersfield singer-songwriter, who thrived after an early life of crime and a prison term in San Quentin, died on his birthday. By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation ...