Fifteen years ago today, the country star and songwriter behind major hits from Merle Haggard and others died in Nashville.

Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard's death yesterday (April 6) impacted more than just the country-music community. His influence reached deep into the rock realm, too. The boys from Jacksonville, Fla., ...

Merle Haggard, the former San Quentin inmate whose resonant baritone, songs about the hardships of ordinary people and devotion to the traditions of country music put him in the pantheon of American ...

Ninety-four years ago today, the guitarist who played with several legends before spending two decades in Merle Haggard's ...

Tanya Tucker is reflecting on the early years of her friendship with country legend Merle Haggard — and how she once snuck out of her house to spend time with him. The "Delta Dawn" singer, 67, was 21 ...

Growing up in the South, there are certain names you’re inundated with so many times that they become intertwined with your own story — intrinsic to the chronicles of your coming of age. Merle Haggard ...

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy didn’t ...

PALO CEDRO, Calif. — Several fans lined Silver Bridge Road in Palo Cedro on Saturday to say one last goodbye to Merle Haggard, who died at home Wednesday from pneumonia at age 79. The private funeral ...

Country icon Merle Haggard died Wednesday morning (April 6) on his 79th birthday. Country artists, singer-songwriters and musicians across the nation are reacting online to the news. By Billboard ...

As tributes to the late Merle Haggard continue to roll in, one anecdote keeps coming up: That time Haggard was an inmate at San Quentin and saw Johnny Cash perform one of his famous prison concerts.

The tribute concert “Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard” assembled a cross-genre army of Haggard fans to interpret the late country legend’s most famous songs. Keith Richards, John ...

Monte Mills and the Lucky Horseshoe Band has graced San Luis Obispo County with shows and performances for five decades - and they're not stopping.