Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

Before “Okie From Muskogee” became his signature song and before “If We Make It Through December” became his biggest crossover hit, Merle Haggard’s best-known song was the one where he came clean ...

Haggard told me, “After we got it cut, I said ‘Why don’t we just leave that stuff off the album, and do an album for once that’s totally about music, don’t have any political undertones at all, or ...

Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about what drove him to write the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq-war song, now being revived as the Republican VP candidate's walk-up ...