A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...

New York Times best-selling author Marc Eliot knew the subject of his latest released biography, "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard," for 25 years before his death in 2016. The ...

Recently I gained what I hope is a sharper understanding of the great white rage that has fueled Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, before that, the Tea Party. Merle Haggard, the greatest ...

Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about what drove him to write the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq-war song, now being revived as the Republican VP candidate's walk-up ...