The track’s origins tell a much different story than its chart success suggests, adding to its fascinating legacy.

Route 66, which turns 100 years old this year, missed Arkansas' northwest corner by about 23 miles. But much of Arkansas' ...

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, during a ...

From Big Sky Country to the Cowboy State, every corner of America has a song that speaks to its soul. Join us as we explore ...

When you’re a kid, the music you hear is, for the most part, not the music you chose to listen to, but what the adults around ...

On May 2, 1976, Merle Haggard scored his third consecutive No. 1 album with 'It's All in the Movies', featuring his eighth ...

A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle Haggard’s "The Fightin’ Side of Me" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot ...

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 ...

It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson, of all people, sing the famous lyric: “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee.” Not only because the Texas county legend is a famed pothead, but also because his dearly ...

Tipping his cowboy hat to one of the greats, Merle Haggard. This week, Willie Nelson released his new record Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle, which features 11 country classics penned by the Hag ...

Race car driver Luke Leatherman has deep roots on the speedway. “My family has always been a family of racers,” he said. “My grandpa, Dan Leatherman, raced for 55 or so years and quit in 2020. My dad ...