There’s a subplot, if that term can apply to a documentary – the road, and the role of fathers in shaping a man. Merle ...

While touring together in the early 1970s, Merle Haggard had already fallen in love with Dolly Parton. Haggard even wrote a ...

"I think Merle is a great singer and songwriter, and probably he was in as bad a shape as I was, but we’ve never been close since that night.” ...

Award-winning actor, director, and author Ethan Hawke was in Bakersfield on Monday while he works on a documentary on country ...

A visit to LuLu's in Redding brought out tales of its most famous diner, the late Merle Haggard, and some history on the ...

Options range from Maxwell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Los Tucanes de Tijuana to Ozomatli, San Diego’s Sure Fire Soul Ensemble and a ...

The history of country music and the Grateful Dead may be more intertwined than you think. This past week, Dead & Company ...

Stealing the show at that very first Farm Aid concert in April 1985 was Merle Haggard, singing his then-new song "Natural High." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERLE HAGGARD: (Singing ...

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 ...

When country music legend Merle Haggard lived in Palo Cedro, one of his well-known local hangouts was LuLu’s Eating and Drinking Establishment in Redding. That’s where longtime LuLu’s ...