Merle Haggard's death from pneumonia on April 6 hit many country radio programmers hard, and left them pausing to reflect on the County Music Hall of Famer's profound and lasting influence on the… By ...

The late great Merle Haggard and George Strait are both country music icons in their own right. Today, many consider Strait to be the King of County. And it sure makes sense why. He’s still producing ...

Merle's first BBC interview was on Radio 2, for David Allan's Country Greats in Concert ...

The late Merle Haggard sang about breakups, working, loving, fighting, American flags, getting drunk and working some more. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WORKIN' MAN BLUES") HAGGARD: (Singing) Well, hey, hey, ...

"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, ...

Singer Merle Haggard just may be the best country songwriter since Hank Williams. But this “poet of the common man” is unlikely to get his songs played on commercial country stations because his point ...

A new Merle Haggard song that is critical of the media's coverage of the war in Iraq is being rushed to thousands of radio stations around the United States. Tom Thacker, vice president of Hag Records ...