Nelson recorded Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle, produced with Mickey Raphael, at his Pedernales Studios in Austin. It ...

Willie Sings Merle will depend on how you feel about Willie casually jamming on songs with longtime bandmates. One of the ...

Merle Haggard expressed his disdain for modern country music and said that Martina McBride's 'Independence Day' is one he ...

Nine and a half years after his death -- on his 79th birthday, in fact -- Merle Haggard is the subject of two new albums, one ...

Fifty-five years ago today, Merle Haggard was in the middle of a long run at No. 1 with his second chart-topping album of the year.

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 ...

Merle Haggard’s songs always seemed to channel the people he sang for through his 79 years: blue-collar workers, prison inmates, forlorn lovers and everyday Americans looking for signs of reassurance ...

In documentary, pariah pastor Haggard reveals sexual past, says still struggles. Jan. 8, 2009 — -- Ted Haggard, the former evangelical megachurch leader who fell from grace in a 2006 sex and ...

The country music world lost an absolute icon when Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday. Since the early 1960s, Haggard had made a name for himself in country music, as a ...