Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of ...

Merle Haggard was one of the greatest country singer/songwriters to walk the earth. He was also one of the only (reformed) criminals in the Outlaw Country movement. Haggard also helped to bring the ...

Throughout his career—and he kept working right until his death on April 6, 2016, a day that happened to be his 79th birthday—Merle Haggard tied the past to the present, and wound up pointing toward ...

Country music legend Merle Haggard died April 6 at the age of 79. His career spanned more than half a century, during which time he landed no fewer than 38 number-one hits on the US country music ...