Released in June 1980, “Misery and Gin” was written by John Durrill and Snuff Garrett. The song was originally written for the film Bronco Billy. But with Haggard loving the lyrics, it was released on ...

Producer J.J. Blair and musician Mike Finnigan had been friends for decades when Blair began producing what became Finnigan's ...

Eighty-five years ago today one of the most prolific and successful songwriters of the 1970s and '80s was born in New Mexico.

Willie Nelson is releasing "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle," his 78th solo album, as a tribute to Merle Haggard. The new album features 11 covers of Haggard's songs, including "Workin’ Man Blues" and ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Merle Haggard didn’t just write great country songs, he lived them. His real life experiences of poverty as the son of Oklahoma migrants, an early stint in prison and a life ...

In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard recorded the hit album "Pancho & Lefty," the cover of which shows the two country legends against a desert backdrop, Nelson smiling and Haggard working his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York Times best-selling author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.

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 ...