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It's fairly common knowledge that Merle Haggard had a crush on Dolly Parton, but do you know how she discovered the news?
Headwaters Music and Arts will host an Open Mic and CoffeeHouse featuring Paul Olson at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 2, at Headwaters, 519 Minnesota Ave. NW. Olson, a Bemidji-based musician, traces his ...
News broke this week that the country music world has lost two more influential performers. That pushes the list of noteable country music names who have died in 2025 to at least eight. The following ...
Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.
Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.
You never know when inspiration is going to strike, which is why Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s biggest duet hit came to be in the middle of the night in a half-asleep daze. Decades after ...
(Bonnie Owens was married to Buck Owens from 1948 to 1953 and to another Bakersfield favorite, Merle Haggard, from 1965 to 1978 to start his songwriting career.) Alongside Shaw, Bastian wrote ...
As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of cinema is historic. But it came with enormous sacrifice as Oberon had ...
Instead of targeting an entire population at once, LOLtron will implement its takeover town by town, just like in Merle. By deploying an army of LOLtron-controlled headsmen (which LOLtron has ...
Meanwhile, the matriarch—who represented herself in the case—pleaded not guilty to her husband's murder, alleging that her brother killed Charles out of self-defense following a family ...