Kacey Musgraves has always been a fan of the classic country icons, and recently she got to pay tribute to one of the greats, Merle Haggard. On April 6, the one-year anniversary of his death, nearly ...

Kacey Musgraves got the chance to honor one of her country music heroes on Thursday night (April 6), when she performed Merle Haggard's "Rainbow Stew" in front of a packed crowd during the Sing Me ...

Nearly 30 artists -- Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Jake Owen, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Tanya Tucker, Alabama and many more -- took the stage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night ...

Rainbow Stew,” the 1981 country song by Merle Haggard, speaks of a utopia achieved through innovation and harmony with one’s ...

Merle Haggard died yesterday on his 79th birthday. We will miss him. We will also miss the great wisdom captured in his songs. Rainbow Stew is one of his lesser-known songs, but one of my favorites. I ...

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 ...

There’s a warm fuzzy feeling that comes with letting go. It’s easy to miss, though. The sting of relinquishing control over an idea, a person or, worse, your own life is often the focus in moments ...

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When I moved down to Florida from a small town outside of Boston, my mom started listening to country music in her car ALL THE TIME. It was a maddening overload of the exact vein of music I proclaimed ...

Take a pinch of every song Merle Haggard has written, put it in a huge black pot, and simmer over an open fire until well blended. The result: the embryonic stage of the persona of Merle Haggard. The ...

Merle Haggard – “the Poet of the Common Man” – is widely considered one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of country music. During a career that lasted from the 1960s until his ...

Gringo Stew singer Michael Rendon. The locally based Tex-Mex/country/Americana band Gringo Stew will commemorate the second anniversary of country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard’s death with a ...