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

One of Merle Haggard's classics. In 1973, Merle released "If We Make It Through December" as the lead single for his Christmas album Merle Haggard’s Christmas Present, but it later became the the ...

Fifty-seven years ago today, Merle Haggard walked into a Los Angeles recording studio to cut one of his most memorable songs.

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 ...

The relaxed, utterly confident twists in the phrasing Merle Haggard takes throughout his new album, I Am What I Am, prove that he is what he is: a country-music star who takes great pleasure in ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A Merle Haggard bluegrass album may be a strange concept to some, but it's not really a stretch at all. Backed by an all-star band that includes Marty Stuart, Carl Jackson and ...

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

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Nine tracks from ...

The legendary Willie Nelson is paying homage to another outlaw country legend in a new studio album out Friday, November 7. Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle will contain 11 tracks on which Nelson ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's not so much that Merle Haggard has established himself as an American gem on his ambitious releases in the past decade; it's that we finally took notice. He's gone from the ...

Nelson reinterprets “Okie from Muskogee,” and some of Haggard’s other biggest hits, on the new 11-track LP, Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle. The pair toured and collaborated frequently, most notably ...