In 1982, Merle Haggard had a No. 1 single with "Big City", a song he wrote with his bus driver and close friend.

Sixty-three years ago today, the son of a country legend who followed in his father's footsteps a little too closely at times ...

A decade ago, Merle Haggard died on the same day he turned 79 after sharing a premonition that his final moments would coincide with his birthday. The country music singer fell ill with pneumonia in ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway. This ...

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, ...

New York Times best-selling 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 ...

Parton visited Redding again in December 1977 to perform two concerts that packed the Civic, with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ...

Tomorrow, country music legend and Texas icon Willie Nelson turns 90. At this stage, he’s outlived most of his friends and contemporaries including Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Price, Buck ...

Nov. 30—Derek Gibson, past-president of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, informed the Muskogee City Council Monday at its regular meeting that there would be no statue in Muskogee to honor the late ...