Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

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

A chart-topping country song told the touching story of a family whose determination helped them overcome extraordinary challenges.

This isn't the best Merle Haggard take I've ever seen... but it is the worst Merle Haggard take I've ever seen. When ...

PALO CEDRO, Calif. — Several fans lined Silver Bridge Road in Palo Cedro on Saturday to say one last goodbye to Merle Haggard, who died at home Wednesday from pneumonia at age 79. The private funeral ...

Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard's death yesterday (April 6) impacted more than just the country-music community. His influence reached deep into the rock realm, too. The boys from Jacksonville, Fla., ...

In December 1966, Merle Haggard released a song called “The Fugitive”, which would go on to become the first No. 1 hit of his country music career. It certainly wouldn’t be the last, as the country ...

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy didn’t ...

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 ...

He was best known for such patriotic hits as "Okie From Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me" Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ ...

Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation and imprisonment to become one of the enduring figures in hardcore country music, died Wednesday morning (April 6). By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, ...

1. Ben Haggard is the son of Theresa Lane and the late Merle Haggard. Ben is the youngest son of country music legend, Merle Haggard. Merle married Theresa Ann Lane in 1993. She was his fifth wife, ...