Prior to his death in April of 2016, Merle Haggard accumulated a massive stockpile of unreleased songs -- 300 or 400 of them, according to an interview from the spring of 2015. One of those songs came ...

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Nine tracks from ...

Everybody knows “Take Me Home, Country Roads” like the back of their hand. But what about John Denver’s other hits? “I’m Sorry” dropped back in 1975 and marked his final No. 1 country hit of his ...

Author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The writer's exposure to music, ...

In this June 28, 2015, file photo, singer-songwriter Merle Haggard performs at the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival in Dover, Del. Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs ...

Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out ...

Country music fans across the country are remembering Merle Haggard this week, with Thursday marking both the one-year anniversary of his passing and what would have been his 80th birthday. In Redding ...

A photo of Merle Haggard from the commemorative plaque outside the Haggard House at the Kern County Museum. (Rebekah Kearn/Courthouse News) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — When I read that the late country ...

On July 15, 1935, James Francis Haggard departed Checotah with his wife, Flossie, and their two children, James Lowell and Lillian, by way of a Chevy. Like other Okies, they migrated west in search of ...

Merle Haggard, the working man’s poet, an architect of the Bakersfield Sound and a fiercely independent artist who influenced country music like few others, died Wednesday in California, surrounded by ...