Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A date has officially been set for a special unveiling in Muskogee, Okla. And it's got Bakersfield written all over it. Coming ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The man who made Muskogee famous has been immortalized there. On Oct. 10, city of Muskogee officials unveiled a statue of singer-songwriter Merle Haggard. The statue of Haggard was ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Country musician Merle Haggard was honored with a statue and tribute band at the same venue where he recorded his live album, 'Okie from Muskogee.' Tony Corbell, the director for the ...

Downtown Muskogee has a new statue in front of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The group unveiled a new bronze statue of Merle Haggard outside of the Civic Center, where he recorded “Okie From ...

If songs like “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” painted Merle Haggard as a troubled, steel-nerved poet for the Everyman, then songs like “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” were songs that added an ...

MUSKOGEE — Back in 1969, when country music star Merle Haggard recorded the “live” album called “Okie From Muskogee,” he could never have guessed that 55 years later, he would be honored with a statue ...

Bakersfield and Muskogee, Okla. are not officially sister cities, but next week, they might as well be as there's going to be a lot of Bakersfield in Muskogee on Thursday. Exactly 55 years to the day ...

Merle Haggard bought his way out of a record deal just so he could release "Me And Crippled Soldiers" in 1990.

Artist Benjamin Victor has been selected by the Merle Haggard Statue Committee to create a bronze statue of Haggard in Muskogee, a town that received an exposure boost from Haggard's song "Okie From ...