Growing up poor and raised by a single mother, Merle Haggard also connected to the song ... The two would often hang out on one another’s tour bus, playing cards, and talking about the music ...

That’s how long singer, songwriter, guitarist and bandleader Ray Benson has been fronting Asleep At The Wheel, which performs April 19 at Charleston Music Hall.

Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses Peter Wolf is best known as the lead singer of the J. Geils Band.  Even ...

He passes (passes!) on smoking dope with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard on their tour bus. But Wolf does drain a lot of glasses in these pages. What encounters! A chapter on insane ...

And, you know, that eventually led me to Merle Haggard. That sent me into listening ... I suspect you’re on the bus some? Mark Seliger: Yeah. I mean, we went on the bus a couple of times.

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This Merle Haggard song has become synonymous with his entire career, but he often said he regretted ever writing it.

The annual Haggard Boxcar Music Festival is scheduled for April at the Kern County Museum. The event includes a plethora of Bakersfield artists, as well as a ...

A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard. Merle was born the third child of Flossie Mai and James Haggard in 1937. At the time, the family was living in a ...

A man who helped write two of Garth Brooks ' most well-known songs has died. In fact, songwriter Larry Bastian is responsible ...