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

Outlaw country legend Merle Haggard scored the 10th No. 1 hit of his career on Nov. 29, 1971, with "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man.)" ...

Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than 100 country hits (38 No. 1s), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of 10,000 concerts, induction ...

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 songwriter, ...

Six new artists have been added to the upcoming Merle Haggard tribute concert. Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Jake Owen, Aaron Lewis, Tanya Tucker and Chris Janson will all take the stage during ...

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 ...

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Sturgill Simpson thinks Merle Haggard was a legend. And he’s infuriated that the Academy of Country Music has named an award after him. “In Bloom” singer Simpson savaged the Academy of Country Music ...

The Academy of Country Music is paying special tribute to country legend Merle Haggard. At the 2016 ACM Honors, a new award will be given in honor of the iconic late singer: the ACM Merle Haggard ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.

Fans of the popular Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline museums in Nashville are in luck: their operator is introducing a third offering — a Merle Haggard museum — in Nashville next summer. Bill and Shannon ...

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 ...