When country music legend Merle Haggard lived in Palo Cedro, one of his well-known local hangouts was LuLu’s Eating and Drinking Establishment in Redding. That’s where longtime LuLu’s ...

Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer's anthems as his walk-up ...

Merle Haggard had a lifelong fascination with trains. After he became a star, he acquired his own railway observation car. And that railway car, on which you can book passage, ...

Merle also appeared on Parton’s later ’80s television variety show Dolly. When Haggard died in 2016, Parton said , “We’ve lost one of the greatest writers and singers of all time. His ...

Merle Haggard, known as the poet of the common man, is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and was the recipient of a ...

This week’s enticing live-music options include Ziggy Marley, Earth, Wind & Fire and a triple-bill of Dwight Yoakam, The ...

The country music icon, Merle Haggard, passed away in 2016 due to Pneumonia. Haggard passed away at 79-years-old on April 6, his birthday. Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images.

Why Merle Haggard Wrote ‘America First,’ the Song Suddenly Getting a Revival as JD Vance’s Campaign Theme Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about ...

LuLu's Eating and Drinking Establishment in Redding was a favorite haunt of country music legend Merle Haggard. Owner Richard Paulson, whose family has a long history in the restaurant business ...