Multi-instrumentalist Don Markham, a longtime member of Merle Haggard's band the Strangers and good friend of the country icon, has died. The musician passed away on Friday (Feb. 24) in Oildale, Calif ...

Biff Adam, a longtime member of Merle Haggard's backing band the Strangers, died on Saturday (March 7) after suffering from congestive heart failure. He was 83 years old. In his work with Haggard, ...

Merle Haggard fans are about to have not just one, but two once-in-a-lifetime moments to celebrate the country icon's life and career. After the all-star tribute to Haggard on Thursday (April 6) in ...

It’s almost kind of funny. That’s what I said to Gary Newman, frontman of the band formerly known as the Haggard Bucks. “Oh, it is funny,” Newman said followed by the kind of chuckle one may have used ...

It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of American song who passed away last Wednesday on the occasion of his 79th ...

The soulful sound of the blues filled the Hayti Heritage Center Saturday during their annual Bull Durham Blues Festival. The festival is one of the biggest of its kind and was staged by the Center for ...

When I interviewed Merle Haggard in 2002, I asked him to explain the difference between Southeastern country music and West Coast country music. He answered by asking a question of his own. Did I know ...

Not everyone can say they spent a huge chunk of their childhood on tour with country music legend Merle Haggard, but Marty Haggard holds that claim. Now 61 and living in the tiny, one-stoplight ...

(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 ...

“It is a character study,” Haggard said in his American Songwriter interview, then revealing that his 1969 self was the character. “It was the photograph that I took of the way things looked through ...

Over the last 30 years, young people's tastes in music have changed dramatically, but at Plano's Haggard Middle School, they've had one consistent musical influence. The school's longtime band ...

Merle Haggard, the working man’s poet, an architect of the Bakersfield Sound and a fiercely independent artist who influenced country music like few others, died Wednesday in California, surrounded by ...