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

In a strange turn of events, the top-selling Merle Haggard album on iTunes in the days immediately following his death is a collection of re-recorded versions of his best-known songs -- not the… By Ed ...

If you can't get enough of country legend Merle Haggard, Capitol Nashville/EMI Music Catalog Marketing has another treat in store. "Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard," a career-spanning collection of the ...

Merle's first BBC interview was on Radio 2, for David Allan's Country Greats in Concert ...

Looking back at at Lucky, her 2014 collection of Merle Haggard covers, Suzy Bogguss can't speak about Haggard's mark on her career without mentioning his influence on her as a country music fan. She ...

If one of today's country stars made that same leap from prison inmate to platinum outlaw, he'd play the part for all it was worth. But the tender-voiced, jazz-loving, politically amorphous singer… By ...

On Saturday night, the spotlight rested comfortably on the shoulders of country music legend Merle Haggard as he closed out the Southern Folklife Collection’s 25th anniversary weekend. Haggard and his ...

Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight Merle Haggard in 2003, practicing at a home in Whitmore. (Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann) Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight Merle Haggard in 2003, practicing at a home ...