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

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 ...

"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.” ...

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

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.

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

Through it all, the songs still flowed. Over decades of trouble, fame, and more trouble, Merle Haggard never stopped making up songs. The country-music star seemed afflicted with a song-writing ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer's anthems as his walk-up ...

Merle Haggard was known by his fans as "Hag." With songs that reflected the working-class values and experiences of his own early life, Haggard found an audience in folks that saw the same.

Author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The writer's exposure to music ...