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 ...

Merle Haggard was one of the greatest country singer/songwriters to walk the earth. He was also one of the only (reformed) criminals in the Outlaw Country movement. Haggard also helped to bring the ...

The Bakersfield singer-songwriter, who thrived after an early life of crime and a prison term in San Quentin, died on his birthday. By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation ...

Country music legend Merle Haggard died April 6 at the age of 79. His career spanned more than half a century, during which time he landed no fewer than 38 number-one hits on the US country music ...

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 ...