Merle Haggard has always been a stellar lyricist and singer, but this video proves that the man also had quite the knack for penning a poem.

Julien Baker and Torres turned 21 in prison doing life without parole. No one could steer them right, but mama tried. Mama tried, mama tried to raise them better, but her pleading they denied. That ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Joe McFadden, a music industry executive who had stints at EMI, Capitol Records and Better Noise Music and worked with acts including Merle Haggard, Paul McCartney ...

Norm Hamlet is a music legend. The 90-year-old has lived an extraordinary life playing the steel guitar, making him a major ...

Faithfull also credited Richards in the tribute with turning her on to blues musicians like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, as well as Merle Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home,” a song they ...

Merle Haggard … I’ll stop there. This exchange from our interview captures his book’s vibe in a nutshell: I ask about an interior photo of Wolf sitting poolside with Dunaway. Terry O’Neill ...

Maybe you've placed bets on horse or dog races. Maybe you've cheered on the piglets racing at rodeos. But have you seen how fast the state animal of Texas can run? If not, you'll get your chance ...

This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar ...

Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all her life. When Michelle Yeoh was nominated ...

With a newly selected logo and administrative pieces falling into place, the Bakersfield Community Land Trust hopes to break ground on its first affordable housing units this summer and start ...