On this day (June 28) in 1966, Merle Haggard and The Strangers recorded “The Bottle Let Me Down.” They cut the song at the Capitol Recording Studio in Hollywood, California. Ken Nelson and Fuzzy Owen ...

Twenty-five years ago, a bill like this one would have been inconceivable. Merle Haggard, the one-time king of country, supported by an all-black gospel vocal group and a Dylan/Woody protege from ...

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, ...