April 6 marked 10 years since we lost country music giant Merle Haggard on his 79th birthday. With a career lasting more than five decades, Haggard brought the Bakersfield, California country sound to ...

Merle Haggard was one of the greatest country singer/songwriters to walk the earth. He was also one of the only (reformed) criminals in the Outlaw Country movement. Haggard also helped to bring the ...

Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" was ranked No. 9 on Rolling Stone's most recent listing of the 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. Written in 1968, the song remains a timeless classic that ...

One afternoon in a Hollywood studio produced a song that would change his career—and country music—with almost no one ...