Haggard recorded four songs by Parton, including two he released before her, and one she wrote especially for him, and his ...

Although Haggard didn’t clarify which “Independence Day” he was talking about, it stands to reason that he meant Martina ...

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.

Virginians can now hop aboard a vintage dome train car for a three-hour sightseeing excursion through the Blue Ridge ...

A somewhat troubled childhood led to years spent behind bars for Merle Haggard.

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.

Once owned by Country Music legend Merle Haggard, the refurbished car operated by the Buckingham Branch Railroad is part of two different excursions that the company offers, both three-hour round ...

Merle Haggard was known by his fans as “Hag ... Bakersfield musician Buck Owens led a subgenre of country music fueled by a raw honky-tonk energy with a little bit of Western swing and ...

In honor of one of Bakersfield's most famous sons, the Haggard Boxcar Music Festival, a grand birthday celebration for the iconic country music legend Merle Haggard, returns after a four-year ...

Country music icon and outlaw Merle Haggard has died at the age of 79. The legendary singer passed away at his home in California. Over the course of his seven decades Haggard lived the kind of ...

I can fly. I was drowning in a sea... BIANCULLI: Today, we're going to listen to our 1995 interview with country music star Merle Haggard. Jon Caramanica, in The New York Times, once described him ...