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Talladega is 2.66 miles of asphalt foolishness. The banked turns were designed at 33-degree angles, meaning, when you're ...
It's fairly common knowledge that Merle Haggard had a crush on Dolly Parton, but do you know how she discovered the news?
He may be the greatest sports imposter ever. Could he pull off racing around one of the sport's great tracks? Here is his story.
Haggard recorded four songs by Parton, including two he released before her, and one she wrote especially for him, and his ...
Headwaters Music and Arts will host an Open Mic and CoffeeHouse featuring Paul Olson at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 2, at Headwaters, 519 Minnesota Ave. NW. Olson, a Bemidji-based musician, traces his ...
Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.
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.
Virginians can now hop aboard a vintage dome train car for a three-hour sightseeing excursion through the Blue Ridge ...
From Turlock south, the view from your car is an endless array of orchards, row crops, and trains. Vineyards start sneaking ...
David Frizzell headlines Song of the Mountains at The Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia, on Saturday, May 3. Justin Mychals ...
Johnny Cash is such a legend, surely he’s won every major award country music has to offer … right? Wrong. In fact, The Man ...
Shooter Jennings and the Werewolves of Los Angeles will bring a genre-blending set that mixes Jennings' own catalog with the songs of Warren Zevon, while Ben Haggard, son of country legend Merle ...