Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world has lost another music legend today. Merle Haggard, who created the Bakersfield sound with Buck Owens and defined the ...

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This year marks a decade since country music lost one of its pillars in Merle Haggard. The legendary singer died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—capping off perhaps the most illustrious career ...

Merle Haggard passed away on his birthday in 2016 and left behind an immortal legacy. Over the course of his career, Haggard released more than 60 albums and wrote many of the songs on those albums.

Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard's death yesterday (April 6) impacted more than just the country-music community. His influence reached deep into the rock realm, too. The boys from Jacksonville, Fla., ...

Growing up in the South, there are certain names you’re inundated with so many times that they become intertwined with your own story — intrinsic to the chronicles of your coming of age. Merle Haggard ...

“Timeless” and “original” are worn-out words that we apply to great art without much care, but in the case of Merle Haggard’s music, they are the only words that fit. Because the best of Haggard’s ...

Merle Haggard, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose autobiographical prison songs and populist political anthems, notably “Mama Tried” and “Okie From Muskogee,” made him one of country music’s most ...

Merle Haggard is dead at 79, and that seems impossible. The performer—an American poet, ambivalent culture warrior, reformed criminal, and all-around good-time character who changed country music by ...

(Reuters) - Country musician Merle Haggard, who emerged from prison to become the poetic voice of the American working man with hits such as "Mama Tried" and "If We Make It Through December," died on ...