Merle Haggard, a.k.a “The Hag,” proved this 1973 country classic “If We Make It Through December,” has lost none of its ...
...it was a wonderful period in America. America was like the music: the music reflects the kind of people we were then. And the music was much more--I think--sophisticated than it is now. It was much ...
Merle Haggard enjoyed plenty of hits back in the 1960s. The country crooner already had a string of No. 1 hits on the US and Canadian country music charts by the time he got to “Workin’ Man Blues” in ...
On this day (August 16) in 1969, Merle Haggard topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with “Workin’ Man Blues.” The song was a tribute to blue-collar workers, who formed the core of his devoted ...
The Merle Haggard documentary has been about two years of work for you, and the Lorenz Hart biopic is fresh but in some ways… how long has it been since it was first brought up, again? Rick and I have ...
The tribute concert “Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard” assembled a cross-genre army of Haggard fans to interpret the late country legend’s most famous songs. Keith Richards, John ...
Some afternoons, when his kids aren’t around and he doesn’t feel like practicing with his band, Merle Haggard will load a pipe, climb onto his John Deere golf cart and take a ride around his property, ...
As proof of just how fearless he is, Hawke ventured into what some would consider the very hub of the festival, the Baked in Telluride walk-in eatery, to meet the press, as onlookers happily looked on ...