From a troubled childhood to the unforgiving walls of a San Quentin prison cell, Merle Haggard certainly overcame plenty of obstacles on his own to get to some of his greatest career highs, but none ...

Ben and Noel Haggard will perform Aug. 28 at Lee Creek Tavern in Cherokee Casino Roland, celebrating Merle Haggard's music and their own.

Country music's outlaw legend Merle Haggard died on his 70th birthday. Haggard began playing guitar shortly after his final stint in jail in 1960 and released his first single in 1963. And last year, ...

The tributes to country music legend Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, have been flooding in, with colleagues such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Hank Williams ...

One of the year’s best albums is a Merle Haggard tribute called “Best Troubador”—the odd spelling is deliberate—from the singer-songwriter Will Oldham, working under his stage name, Bonnie “Prince” ...

The sons of legendary country music singer Merle haggard, Ben and Noel Haggard, will make an appearance at Lee Creek Tavern ...

Vince Gill is paying tribute to one of his musical heroes. During night three of his six-night Ryman residency in Nashville, ...

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy didn’t ...

PALO CEDRO, Calif. — Several fans lined Silver Bridge Road in Palo Cedro on Saturday to say one last goodbye to Merle Haggard, who died at home Wednesday from pneumonia at age 79. The private funeral ...

Merle Haggard, the former San Quentin inmate whose resonant baritone, songs about the hardships of ordinary people and devotion to the traditions of country music put him in the pantheon of American ...

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 ...

Merle Haggard’s songs always seemed to channel the people he sang for through his 79 years: blue-collar workers, prison inmates, forlorn lovers and everyday Americans looking for signs of reassurance ...