Shortly after finding success with the studio version of “Okie from Muskogee,” Haggard released a live album of the same name. It became a multi-week No. 1 in the summer of 1970. So, after “The ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Country musician Merle Haggard was honored with a statue and tribute band at the same venue where he recorded his live album, 'Okie from Muskogee.' Tony Corbell, the director for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They stood for decades as Bakersfield's two greatest country music stars, and long after their deaths, they still wear those ...

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Nine tracks from ...

MUSKOGEE — Back in 1969, when country music star Merle Haggard recorded the “live” album called “Okie From Muskogee,” he could never have guessed that 55 years later, he would be honored with a statue ...

Author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The writer's exposure to music, ...

New York Times best-selling author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The ...

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.