One of Merle Haggard's all-time favorite singers has a surprising connection to The Goo Goo Dolls. Small world indeed.

A raw, unfiltered portrait of working-class America at Christmastime—one that still resonates just as deeply half a century ...

LOS ANGELES - Country legend Merle Haggard, often called "the Poet of the Common Man," whose music reflected his hardscrabble roots and hard-living ways as well as a tenderness that made him a revered ...

Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out ...

In this June 28, 2015, file photo, singer-songwriter Merle Haggard performs at the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival in Dover, Del. Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs ...

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 music ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Country musician Merle Haggard was honored with a statue and tribute band at the same venue where he recorded his live album, 'Okie from Muskogee.' Tony Corbell, the director for the ...

Some songwriters are able to write songs about those turns in life too painful to talk about. When I met Merle Haggard aboard his tour bus in the early summer of 2001, he no longer looked much like ...

In honor of one of Bakersfield's most famous sons, the Haggard Boxcar Music Festival, a grand birthday celebration for the iconic country music legend Merle Haggard, returns after a four-year hiatus ...

Twenty-four years ago today, the country music world lost one of the greatest guitar players to ever work in Nashville.

Garth Brooks went to great lengths to give Trisha Yearwood a proposal she would never forget. In the country music star's newly released book, "The Anthology Part IV: Going Home," Brooks shared that ...