Haggard was an architect of country ... high-end hotel planned for downtown Nashville Merle's Meat + Three Saloon will be, according to its logo, "powered by Swett's." The Swett family, and ...

In his new book, Merle Haggard: The Running Kind (University of Texas Press), David Cantwell traces the contradictions and complexities in the life and work of the country music legend ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired a package for a film biopic of iconic C&W singer Merle Haggard. Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell is circling to play Haggard, and he will do his own singing ...

On September 12th, 2006 Capitol Records will release Hag: The Best Of Merle Haggard, a single disc career spanning anthology featuring 26 tracks from the country legend. The release of this ...

EXCLUSIVE: Merle Haggard’s life may be made into a feature film. GMH Productions has optioned the script Done It All, about the life of the legendary country singer/songwriter/musician ...

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy ...

Merle Haggard, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose autobiographical prison songs and populist political anthems, notably “Mama Tried” and “Okie From Muskogee,” made him one of country ...