Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 3—Muskogee celebrates Merle Haggard with a statue and songs Thursday — the 55th anniversary of Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee" ...

On this day (December 9) in 1968, Merle Haggard stepped into Capitol Recording Studios in Los Angeles to cut a handful of songs for his next album. Among the list of cuts for the day was “Hungry Eyes.

Music from Merle Haggard returns next month to the Grand Ole Opry when the long-running Nashville radio program hosts a night in tribute to the late outlaw legend. Texas hitmaker Cody Johnson, ACM ...

California native Merle Haggard may not have actually been an "Okie from Muskogee," but that very city will soon award the influential singer-songwriter with a special honor. On Wednesday (March 29), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given their druthers, a typical 9-year-old might want to go to the aquarium, or Disneyworld. It’s not every school kid who pleads with his parents to take him to the Grand Ole Opry. But that was Eli ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music from Merle Haggard returns next month to the Grand Ole Opry when the long-running Nashville radio program hosts a night in ...