For his upcoming 78th studio album, Willie Nelson reached deep into Merle Haggard's catalog to honor his late friend.

The country music icon is gearing up to release his 78th career solo studio album (the 155th of his career in total), and this current project will pay tribute to another country music legend, ...

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 ...

Merle Haggard is usually fondly remembered as a country hero, but the lyrical choices on one of his biggest hits aren't something he was proud of.

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 ...

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 ...

Ask fans of the Bakersfield Sound to name their favorite Merle Haggard song, and they’re likely to call out masterpieces like “Workin' Man Blues,” “If We Make it Through December,” “Silver Wings” or ...

Cody Jinks has always had a love for the legends and outlaws who paved the way for artists like him. Last year, Jinks honored one of his musical heroes by releasing a tribute record to Lefty Frizzell, ...

Sturgill Simpson has surprise-released a second bluegrass album. Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions arrived early Friday morning with 12 new recordings, including the previously unheard ...

Merle Haggard, the working man’s poet, an architect of the Bakersfield Sound and a fiercely independent artist who influenced country music like few others, died Wednesday in California, surrounded by ...