Merle Haggard landed yet another No. 1 country album with 'It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" on Jan. 31, 1973.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — He lived the kind of remarkable life that befits a character from a classic work of fiction — but the Merle Haggard story needs no fictional embellishment. His flawed, ...

Merle Haggard is a country music icon. He wrote, recorded, and released some of the most memorable songs in the genre’s history. Songs like “Mama Tried,” “If We Make It Through December,” “Sliver ...

Today's cover story celebrates one of the stalwarts of country music: Merle Haggard. For his story on Page 16, Joel Selvin sat down with Haggard to talk about the star's long career, his recent health ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. This week marks the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid, the country music concert founded by Willie Nelson as a fundraiser to benefit farmers. Held in Champaign, ...

With decades of hard living behind him, Merle Haggard has settled into the role of doting grandpa and country icon who still has the chops to perform. In a recent telephone interview, Haggard, who ...

And I realized what a mess I'd made out of my life, and I got out of there and stayed out of there - never did go back. Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains.