Merle Haggard has recorded literally hundreds of albums and thousands of songs in his career, and at age 72 he shows no signs of slowing down. He’s released 11 albums in the last decade — everything ...

You should be listening to Merle Haggard. But where to begin? Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Last week, we excerpted a new book by Brow Beat contributor David Cantwell, Merle Haggard: The ...

Merle Haggard, a true country music original and one of the genre’s greatest singer/songwriters, passed away today at the age of 79 — on his birthday. The news came following Haggard’s hospitalization ...

To call Merle Haggard a piece of American music history may be something of an understatement. Honored as the ACM Awards’ top new male vocalist in 1965, he made his first of 38 appearances at No. 1 on ...

Thumbing through the crates at the Princeton Record Exchange, and rediscovering albums by Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Broadcast and Merle Haggard. By Lindsay Zoladz I love the unpredictability of ...