How Johnny Cash's performance at San Quentin prison turned Merle Haggard away from a life crime and toward a career in music.

Get the complete lyrics for Silver Wings by Merle Haggard and see why this song is cherished by country fans everywhere.

Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died.

Merle Haggard is one of those rare artists that was lucky to have decades of hits, therefore, making our job of picking just 10 of his best songs extremely difficult.

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 writer's exposure to music ...

When country music legend Merle Haggard lived in Palo Cedro, one of his well-known local hangouts was LuLu’s Eating and Drinking Establishment in Redding. That’s where longtime LuLu’s ...

Stealing the show at that very first Farm Aid concert in April 1985 was Merle Haggard, singing his then-new song "Natural High." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERLE HAGGARD: (Singing ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer's anthems as his walk-up ...

MUSKOGEE — People swarmed around a new Merle Haggard statue in Muskogee as if they were getting to meet the actual country music legend. A Haggard statue was unveiled Thursday evening on the ...