Haggard recorded four songs by Parton, including two he released before her, and one she wrote especially for him, and his ...

On Dolly Parton‘s third album In the Good Old Days (When Times Were ... Growing up poor and raised by a single mother, Merle Haggard also connected to the song, and months before Parton released ...

Merle Haggard ... upended the cash registers with irresistible tributes to old legends and plenty of predictable outlaw swagger. But Haggard made room, too, for the estranged man somewhere ...

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.

A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard.

And he was about 80 years old. And he threw a spoon and a can ... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) GROSS: Merle Haggard, is this song autobiographical? HAGGARD: Well, it really is very ...

At the recent Republican Nominating Convention in Milwaukee and a Michigan Trump rally, JD Vance made a remarkable addition ...

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.