Fifty-two years ago today, Merle Haggard started a four-week run at the top of the country charts with a future signature song.

Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than 100 country hits (38 No. 1s), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of 10,000 concerts, induction ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer’s anthems as his walk-up music ...

Nearly 30 artists -- Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Jake Owen, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Tanya Tucker, Alabama and many more -- took the stage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night ...

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 ...