Miranda Lambert was just one of many artists who took the stage on Thursday night (April 6) to honor the late, great Merle Haggard. Click play above to watch Lambert's sweet and melancholy performance ...

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 writer's exposure to music, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as ...

Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as “Okie From ...

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 ...

Country music fans across the country are remembering Merle Haggard this week, with Thursday marking both the one-year anniversary of his passing and what would have been his 80th birthday. In Redding ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Merle Haggard didn't just write great country songs, he lived them. His real life experiences of poverty as the son of Oklahoma migrants, an early stint in prison and a life ...