A reference point for Baker and Scott was A Taste of Yesterday’s Wine, the 1982 duet album by outlaw mainstay Merle Haggard and George ... unpatriotically, the logo for a defunct Canadian ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's biggest hit came from an impromptu recording session at 5 a.m., post-10-day-cayenne juice ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.

Merle Haggard wowed the crowd with an incredible performance of "Natural High" at a 1985 fundraiser in Illinois.

Virginians can now hop aboard a vintage dome train car for a three-hour sightseeing excursion through the Blue Ridge ...

The car, once owned by Merle Haggard, will be featured on two of the railway's existing excursions: the Alleghany Special and the Blue Ridge Flyer. STAUNTON — The newest member of the Virginia Scenic ...

Merle Haggard’s “Misery and Gin,” Moe Bandy’s “Barstool Mountain” and The Charlie Daniels Band’s “Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye” all find broken-hearted men numbing their hurt with ...

He wrote songs for Merle Haggard and David Frizzell, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Tracy Byrd, Sammy Kershaw, Reba McEntire, Rhett Akins, George Jones and Craig Morgan, per Billboard. But those ...

That quartet's work folds hits by Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, The Monkees, Ricky Nelson, Buck Owens and Elvis Presley into a potent, entertaining blend. Stuart also quickly ...

Although U.S. combat forces withdrew in 1973, the Vietnam War didn’t officially end until April 30, 1975, when South Vietnam surrendered to communist North Vietnam. By that time, tens of ...

(Bonnie Owens was married to Buck Owens from 1948 to 1953 and to another Bakersfield favorite, Merle Haggard, from 1965 to 1978 to start his songwriting career.) Alongside Shaw, Bastian wrote ...