Watch Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard perform their Townes Van Zandt-penned No. 1 hit "Pancho and Lefty" live in 2007.

If you look up ten lists or playlists of country Christmas songs, you’ll likely find Merle Haggard’s 1973 No. 1 hit “If We Make It Through December” in at least five of them. In my opinion ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into ... I got some pretty clear answers from Haggard about both songs… along with a surprising, substantial list of which presidents he'd loved ...

Imagine a truck that's as rugged and reliable as Merle Haggard's music ... a place to write songs under the open sky, a true ...

Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline ... Looking to make an essential '60s country playlist? These 20 songs, ranging from Patsy Cline's devastating ballads to Roger Miller's jaunty "King of the Road ...

dies on his 79th birthday Merle Haggard, the country music legend who was born during the Depression, came of age in prison and whose songs have earned him the title, “poet of the common man ...