Rising country star Zach Top ducked into a Nashville dive bar for an impromptu performance of this '70s Merle Haggard classic ...

In 1970, one year after Merle Haggard released the counterculture ... His 1976 single Waylon’s T-Shirt portrayed an artist in a crisis of identity: In the later part of his career, Mr. Damron ...

Back then, Merle Haggard crooned on the local all-night ... is the last American cowboy. In his collared shirt and faded dark blue jeans, Marty Glomb looks the part. Glomb, a former truck driver ...

When the country music star Merle Haggard criticized hippies in his ... one protester tied a denim shirt to a stick, creating a makeshift flag and giving rise to the movement’s eventual name ...

After entertaining audiences for the past 24 years at the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville, the Ohio Valley Opry will kick off its 25th season in a new town and a new venue this month. Marvin ...

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 ...

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.

Other singers he coached are Janie Fricke, David Frizzell (with Merle Haggard), Reba McEntire, George Jones, Neal McCoy and Rhett Akins. The friendship between Bastian and Brooks began decades ago.

At one point or another, all country stars are bound to run into and even work with each other, but Merle Haggard’s tie to Johnny Cash runs much deeper than mentorship or appreciation of his music.