While touring together in the early 1970s, Merle Haggard had already fallen in love with Dolly Parton. Haggard even wrote a ...

A visit to LuLu's in Redding brought out tales of its most famous diner, the late Merle Haggard, and some history on the ...

There’s a subplot, if that term can apply to a documentary – the road, and the role of fathers in shaping a man. Merle ...

"I think Merle is a great singer and songwriter, and probably he was in as bad a shape as I was, but we’ve never been close since that night.” ...

Merle Haggard was one of the greatest influences on modern country singers and songwriters. The icon's quintessential country sound was the basis for songs that would eventually become country ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died.

“The first time I ever saw you perform, it was at San Quentin,” Haggard said, to which Cash replied: “I don’t remember you being in that show, Merle.” "I was in the audience, Johnny ...

Stealing the show at that very first Farm Aid concert in April 1985 was Merle Haggard, singing his then-new song "Natural High." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERLE HAGGARD: (Singing ...

Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about what drove him to write the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq-war song, now being revived as the Republican VP candidate's ...