We make the case for why "Hungry Eyes" was a better tribute to Oklahomans than Merle Haggard's signature song, "Okie from Muskogee".

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 ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.

Ask fans of the Bakersfield Sound to name their favorite Merle Haggard song, and they’re likely to call out masterpieces like “Workin' Man Blues,” “If We Make it Through December,” “Silver Wings” or ...

Country music legend Merle Haggard is synonymous with “Okie From Muskogee,” but that’s only one of his 38 No. 1 songs.

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Nine tracks from ...