If anyone was still on the fence as to whether Merle Haggard had what it took to become a country music icon, the October 3, 1968, release of his eighth studio album likely put an end to those ...

Over the course of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, Dylan has introduced several covers. Usually, the covers connect in some way with the city where he plays them. For instance, he covered Leonard Cohen ...

With songs like "It's All Going to Pot," "Unfair Weather Friend" and "The Only Man Wilder Than Me," Haggard and Nelson are once again proving that they're great musicians who are, at the heart, outlaw ...

This was about as perfect as a night of music could get. I suppose if you were one of the 1,000 people whose seat was in the blocked-off street outside Knuckleheads you could have complained about the ...

Keith Niehenke recalls what is arguably the greatest concert in Post Falls history like it was yesterday. The vocalist-fiddler stood in rapt attention nearly three decades ago when Merle Haggard ...

The Bakersfield singer-songwriter, who thrived after an early life of crime and a prison term in San Quentin, died on his birthday. By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation ...

Merle Haggard’s death in 2016 rocked the worlds of country music fans who knew all the words to his legendary songs. It also rocked the world of someone who really knew Haggard. His son Ben. As the ...