Rudy Parris of “The Voice” Headlines Merle Haggard Tribute at Virgin River Casino + Lodge this weekend. Rudy joined us with a ...

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.

Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died.

Country music’s iconic stage has slowly revealed a list of 100 songs that encapsulate the best of the fans’ opinions of country music.

Tipping their cowboy hats to the one and only Willie Nelson … well, Possum and the Hag too.

LuLu's Eating and Drinking Establishment in Redding was a favorite haunt of country music legend Merle Haggard. Owner Richard Paulson, whose family has a long history in the restaurant business ...

“I was dumb as a rock when I wrote “Okie From Muskogee,” said Merle Haggard in 2003, after more than four decades of reflecting on one of his most famous songs. “Okie” is a slang word ...

Stealing the show at that very first Farm Aid concert in April 1985 was Merle Haggard, singing his then-new song "Natural High." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERLE HAGGARD: (Singing ...