You should be listening to Merle Haggard. But where to begin? Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Last week, we excerpted a new book by Brow Beat contributor David Cantwell, Merle Haggard: The ...
Merle Haggard's son Ben Haggard recently revealed a video on his YouTube channel, of himself singing his late father's classic song "Silver Wings," made popular in 1969. Ben Haggard sings the hit tune ...
Merle Haggard was one of the greatest influences on modern country singers and songwriters. The icon's quintessential country sound was the basis for songs that would eventually become country ...
Before “Okie From Muskogee” became his signature song and before “If We Make It Through December” became his biggest crossover hit, Merle Haggard’s best-known song was the one where he came clean ...
New York Times best-selling 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 ...
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 ...
The country music world lost an absolute icon when Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday. Since the early 1960s, Haggard had made a name for himself in country music, as a ...
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