Presidential pardons are not unique to Donald Trump and rappers, as the notable predecessor to such cases is between Ronald Reagan and Merle Haggard. In March of 1972, Ronald Reagan famously pardoned ...

"Okie From Muskogee" seems like the last song The Grateful Dead would cover, but maybe that's because they were in on the ...

The story of how this legend was cleared of a crime he was jailed for is much more interesting than the actual crime. The future star was in his mid-30s when he was pardoned for an attempted robbery ...

The best part of Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum right now is probably an exhibit dedicated to the Bakersfield Sound, looking back on when artists like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens ...

Country music’s outlaw legend Merle Haggard died on his 70th birthday. Haggard began playing guitar shortly after his final stint in jail in 1960 and released his first single in 1963. And last year, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired a package for a film biopic of iconic C&W singer Merle Haggard. Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell is circling to play Haggard, and he will do his own singing of ...

His career spanned the famous Bakersfield sound, the outlaw era, and 38 No. 1 hits on the country music charts. Now comes word that Merle Haggard has died Wednesday – his 79th birthday. Haggard gave ...

"I was probably the most incorrigible child you could ever meet," the legendary singer once told NPR. "I was already on the way to prison before I... His career spanned the famous Bakersfield sound, ...