Merle Haggard fans watched Wednesday’s sad news coming down the tracks for quite a while, but it isn’t any easier to accept the passing of the beloved Workin’ Man poet on his 79th birthday in his ...

Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out ...

Before he was a pioneering figure of the outlaw country movement, Merle Haggard was just a plan old outlaw. In 1958, after a life of petty crime, a botched jail attempt landed the 19-year-old new ...