Named for Merle Travis, an American country and western singer hailing from Muhlenberg County, the Merle Travis Music Center, located at 750 Cleaton Road in Powderly, is a 321-seat auditorium ...

LOS ANGELES - Country legend Merle Haggard, often called "the Poet of the Common Man," whose music reflected his hardscrabble roots and hard-living ways as well as a tenderness that made him a revered ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW/AP) - Country music legend Merle Haggard has died in Palo Cedro, California at age 79. The news of his death was confirmed by Haggard's manager, Frank Mull, who said the country icon ...

On what would have been his 85th birthday, country music legend Merle Haggard will be honored with "Merle Haggard: The Inside Stories," a special program at Beale Memorial Library. On Wednesday, Ray ...

Merle Ronald Haggard, the “poet of the common man,” the bard from behind bars, the velvet-voiced country legend from Bakersfield, California died at 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6, his 79th birthday.

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.

Having spent a little over a decade in country music, Riley Green wasted no time making a name for himself. Working with stars like Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett, Green released three studio albums. He ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame though his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such ...

The late Merle Haggard sang about breakups, working, loving, fighting, American flags, getting drunk and working some more. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WORKIN' MAN BLUES") HAGGARD: (Singing) Well, hey, hey, ...

Country music icon Merle Haggard died on Wednesday -- the same day as his 79th birthday -- his manager confirmed to ET. Haggard was reportedly diagnosed with pneumonia last year, and canceled a series ...

HAGGARD: (Singing) Well, hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, and that's one place I won't be. INSKEEP: He sang all the country music stereotypes, but is ...