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 ...

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 ...

Merle Haggard fans watched Wednesday’s sad news coming down the tracks for quite a while, but it isn’t any easier to accept the passing of the beloved Workin’ Man poet on his 79th birthday in his ...

Many country fans know that Merle Haggard was a top-notch singer, songwriter, and musician. However, some may not know that he was also a master impersonator. He regularly did impressions of his ...

Born in 1937, Merle Haggard—nicknamed "The Hag"—was a man made for country music. Growing up in California during the Great Depression had Haggard, who passed in 2016 at the age of 79, living in a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle Haggard ...

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, ...

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 ...