Nearly 30 artists -- Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Jake Owen, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Tanya Tucker, Alabama and many more -- took the stage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night ...

Merle Haggard and Jenessa Haggard backstage during the second annual ACM Honors at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on September 22, 2009 in Nashville ; Merle Haggard with wife Theresa and son Ben arrives ...

Toby Keith gave a poignant tribute to the late country icon Merle Haggard during his performance at the Grand Ole Opry in May, blending together several of the legend’s hits for one memorable ...

Jake Owen offered an impromptu concert for fans from the comfort of his kitchen on Thursday night (April 7). Saddened by the death of Merle Haggard, Owen signed onto Facebook Live to perform a ...

Merle Haggard died on Wednesday (April 6) -- his 79th birthday -- after a brief struggle with pneumonia. “I’m really lucky to be alive,” Haggard said in February. “… I had a pain that went all the way ...

Merle Haggard’s songs always seemed to channel the people he sang for through his 79 years: blue-collar workers, prison inmates, forlorn lovers and everyday Americans looking for signs of reassurance ...

The tributes to country music legend Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, have been flooding in, with colleagues such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Hank Williams ...

Country music’s outlaw legend Merle Haggard died on his 70th birthday. Haggard began playing guitar shortly after his final stint in jail in 1960 and released his first single in 1963. And last year, ...

Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard's death yesterday (April 6) impacted more than just the country-music community. His influence reached deep into the rock realm, too. The boys from Jacksonville, Fla., ...

Tributes poured in on Twitter after news broke of legendary country musician Merle Haggard's death on Wednesday, his 79th birthday. The singer-songwriter died in Palo Cedro, California, 8 miles east ...

Merle Haggard, the former San Quentin inmate whose resonant baritone, songs about the hardships of ordinary people and devotion to the traditions of country music put him in the pantheon of American ...

From a troubled childhood to the unforgiving walls of a San Quentin prison cell, Merle Haggard certainly overcame plenty of obstacles on his own to get to some of his greatest career highs, but none ...