It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of American song who passed away last Wednesday on the occasion of his 79th ...

Country music lost a legend this week when Merle Haggard left us on April 6—his 79th birthday—due to complications from pneumonia. The singer and songwriter embodied what many consider to be the core ...

Sturgill Simpson has surprise-released a second bluegrass album. Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions arrived early Friday morning with 12 new recordings, including the previously unheard ...

Merle Haggard doubled down on the reputation that was born from "Okie from Muskogee" with his next big hit, "Fightin' Side of Me".

Country music fans can now hear Merle Haggard's last song. "Kern River Blues," the final tune that "the Hag" ever recorded, was released on Thursday (May 12). "I'm flying out on a jet plane / Gonna ...

With Prince supposedly possessing a vault of thousands of unreleased recordings and David Bowie leaving “enough material … to be released over the next five years,” it isn’t a great surprise that an ...

Merle Haggard possessed the most perfect surname in American music. It exuded an endurance that came with living, and his music did likewise. These are not Haggard's 10 biggest hits nor his 10 ...

Country singer and songwriter Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday, insisted that American country songwriting was an “art form.” He spent virtually his entire life constructing lyrics, many of which ...

The California native already been through so much by the time he turned 20—including a two-year stint in San Quentin Prison—that, by the time he’d signed his first record deal in 1962 at the age of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of ...

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 ...