The lines in his face look like a road map to hard times. The lines in his songs speak of hard times for common folks like him. I made those observations talking to Merle Haggard back when he was only ...

A decade ago, Merle Haggard died on the same day he turned 79 after sharing a premonition that his final moments would coincide with his birthday. The country music singer fell ill with pneumonia in ...

New York Times best-selling author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The ...

Country icon Merle Haggard has been as much of an inspiration to the mainstream music world as he has been to the scrappy indie scene bubbling beneath it, and two tribute albums that came out in the ...

April 6 marks the loss of two voices that helped define country music: Tammy Wynette in 1998 and Merle Haggard in 2016. Wynette was just 55 when she died, while Haggard passed on his 79th birthday, ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more ...

Johnny Cash’s unprecedented January 1958 performance at San Quentin Prison did more than offer up a slice of normalcy for the more than 1,000 inmates in attendance. It also set the wheels in motion ...