The audio history lesson tracked America's story from the Revolution through the Civil Rights era.

Merle Haggard's 1969 album 'Okie From Muskogee' topped the country albums chart 56 years ago today on May 22, 1970.

In a time when it feels like most songs are put together in a studio like a math equation, many tracks seem like they are ...

Country legend Merle Haggard went to play at the great honky-tonk in the sky 10 years ago. He died April 6, 2016, during a ...

Most holiday songs celebrate joy, family and festive cheer. In 1973, Merle Haggard took a very different approach.

Merle Haggard has passed away, but his musical legacy remains in the form of some of the most important songs in country music history. The legendary musician was not only instrumental in creating the ...

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 ...

PALO CEDRO, Calif. — 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.

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. The ...

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 ...

Prior to his tribute concert, Merle Haggard's wife Theresa proudly spoke about her late husband's influence and legacy, and the song she most relies on these days. Barely holding back tears, the ...

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 ...