In an unearthed 1998 interview, Merle Haggard gets visibly emotional recounting the day he was released from San Quentin ...
Born in 1937, Merle Haggard—nicknamed "The Hag"—was a man made for country music. Growing up in California during the Great Depression had Haggard, who passed in 2016 at the age of 79, living in a ...
Instead, he’s parked outside a Gulf Coast casino, wondering why the battery on his tour bus keeps conking out.“It’s not much fun,” Haggard says of this nomad’s life - a career the beleaguered country ...