The country music world lost an absolute icon when Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday. Since the early 1960s, Haggard had made a name for himself in country music, as a ...

The California native already been through so much by the time he turned 20—including a two-year stint in San Quentin Prison—that, by the time he’d signed his first record deal in 1962 at the age of ...

Merle Haggard, a true country music original and one of the genre’s greatest singer/songwriters, passed away today at the age of 79 — on his birthday. The news came following Haggard’s hospitalization ...