Merle Haggard passed away on his birthday in 2016 and left behind an immortal legacy. Over the course of his career, Haggard released more than 60 albums and wrote many of the songs on those albums.

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Nine and a half years after his death -- on his 79th birthday, in fact -- Merle Haggard is the subject of two new albums, one ...

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, ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway. This ...

Willie Nelson will interpret the songs of Merle Haggard on the country legend's upcoming 78th solo studio album. Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle, due out November 7, finds Nelson delivering 11 new ...

In January 1970, Haggard released the studio version of “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” It became a three-week No. 1. Then, in July of that year, he released the live album of the same name. Again, he and ...

There’s something perverse about watching a man in pain sing some of the most beautiful songs ever written, which is how I spent two nights in November 2010, chasing Merle Haggard’s bus down ...