A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard.

Growing up poor and raised by a single mother, Merle Haggard also connected to the song, and months before Parton released her version, he featured the song first on his 1968 album Mama Tried.

When Vince Gill started recording his twelfth album, Guitar Slinger, in early 2011, a series of devastating events took place, including the death of his friend and wife Amy Grant‘s turning ...