Only Merle Haggard. Never one who was shy or too scared to speak his mind, Merle was good friends with Ray Benson, frontman of Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel, who recalled a great story about ...
Merle Haggard wrote the title track of his fifth album for a former prison mate named Rabbit who invited him to escape San Quentin.
On April 6, 2017 — one year after his death, and what would have been his 80th birthday — country music legend Merle Haggard was saluted with an all-star concert for the ages. At Nashville's ...
Country music fans can now hear Merle Haggard's last song. "Kern River Blues," the final tune that "the Hag" ever recorded, was released on Thursday (May 12). "I'm flying out on a jet plane / Gonna ...
Vince Gill will sometimes share this sweet tribute to his friendship with Merle Haggard during his live shows, and we don't blame him.
Merle Haggard has received a new honor in his home state of California: A stretch of highway now bares his name. As reported by the Record Searchlight, the Interstate 5-Highway 44 interchange in ...
Hot off her stirring performance of "Tin Man" at the 2017 ACM Awards, Miranda Lambert took the stage at the Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard tribute concert in Nashville on Thursday ...
Among the many men and women of the hour during this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Ethan Hawke was soaring arguably higher than even some the other featured guests, due to having two ...
A singer singing about his or her feelings for someone else is normal – be it pop or country or any other type of music. But it is rather un-normal for a performer to declare his love for another ...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Toby Keith closed out the 2016 American Country Countdown Awards on Sunday with a tribute to the late, great Merle Haggard, who died April 6 on his 79th birthday. Keith was backed ...
Raymond McDonald, a former Topekan who was born and spent his early childhood years here, was only 14 years old when he first met country music legend Merle Haggard, who was 27 years old at the time.