Outlaw country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard, who has died at the age of 79, had more than 100 songs reach the Billboard charts and achieved nine consecutive No. 1 country singles during the height ...

Country legend Merle Haggard died Wednesday at his California home left the entire country music-loving nation saddened. He was 79. One of the seminal Haggard discs, it was released on Capital in 1968 ...

The country music world lost an absolute icon when Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday. Since the early 1960s, Haggard had made a name for himself in country music, as a ...

Bissell will co-write and co-produce the biopic with Theresa Haggard, who is the late country star's widow. The as-yet-untitled project will be based off of Haggard's memoir, Sing Me Back Home, which ...

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 ...

Merle Haggard, a true country music original and one of the genre’s greatest singer/songwriters, passed away today at the age of 79 — on his birthday. The news came following Haggard’s hospitalization ...