When he stepped onto the Austin City Limits stage for the very first time on that brisk January day in 1978, Merle Haggard was at the top of his game. It had been over a decade since his first ...

Watch Merle Haggard and his then-wife, Bonnie Owens, step into the roles of Johnny Cash and June Carter for an iconic duet.

A restaurant at the Silverthorn Resort on Lake Shasta was destroyed by fire Sunday night, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire was reported at about 10:30 p ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Singer-songwriters? There's a million of them. Ones that do some acting? The list probably shrinks to a thousand or so. Throw in ...

Nine and a half years after his death -- on his 79th birthday, in fact -- Merle Haggard is the subject of two new albums, one ...

Some folks might think of Dwight Yoakam as more of an actor. After all, he has starred in "Bloodworth," "Crank," "Panic Room" and "Sling Blade." Then there are all the film soundtracks - "The ...

Shortly after finding success with the studio version of “Okie from Muskogee,” Haggard released a live album of the same name. It became a multi-week No. 1 in the summer of 1970. So, after “The ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. This week marks the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid, the country music concert founded by Willie Nelson as a fundraiser to benefit farmers. Held in Champaign, ...

Merle Haggard had a lifelong fascination with trains. After he became a star, he acquired his own railway observation car. And that railway car, on which you can book passage, is now part of the ...

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. This ...

MERLE HAGGARD AND THE STRANGERS: (Singing) The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom. And I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest. And I heard him tell the warden just before he ...