Most holiday songs celebrate joy, family and festive cheer. In 1973, Merle Haggard took a very different approach.

Country legend Merle Haggard went to play at the great honky-tonk in the sky 10 years ago. He died April 6, 2016, at age 79, during a deeply personal time for Rusty Jackson, director and co-founder of ...

The cover version climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, more than a decade after the song's original release ...

Merle Haggard was known for a lot of things, his influence on honky tonk being one. Here are a few songs that give that same ...

Outlaw country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe, who wrote the blue-collar anthem "Take This Job and Shove It'' and created ...

30 years ago today, Cartoon Network debuted one of its first real original hits, but unfortunately the original creator behind it all has no interest in ever bringing it back for more despite its ...

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

Ryan Ward's family was in the stands for the 28-year-old's long-awaited milestone moment. Justin Edmonds / Getty Images DENVER — Ryan Ward toiled in the Los Angeles Dodgers farm system for seven ...

Johnny Depp is back on screen and looking grosser than ever. The Pirates of the Caribbean star appeared in person at CinemaCon on Thursday to introduce the first footage of his turn as Ebenezer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris Stapleton earns his third career hit — and first in half a decade — on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart as "Here ...

Reba McEntire loved Merle Haggard, but she never wanted to meet him. “I never wanted to meet my heroes, because I didn’t want them to disappoint me — ever,” she said in a “Behind the Mic” episode of ...

Another first for Kevin McGonigle. And this was a big one. McGonigle hit his first major-league homer Sunday, turning on a 97-mph fastball from Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara in the fifth inning of ...