AP - Jan 8, 2009
Country star Merle Haggard has sued an environmental awareness group, claiming it illegally used his name and likeness to raise money. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Chancery Court against the Green...
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Merle Haggard is not letting a bout with lung cancer get in the way of his ambitious touring and recording plans. Seven weeks after the 71-year-old country legend had a lemon-sized tumor removed in what...
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Merle Haggard is recovering after having a malignant tumor removed from his lung. Friends said Monday s surgery at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital was a success and that the 71-year-old country crooner...
More »AP - Oct 12, 2007
Appalachian music might seem a strange fit for a guy so closely linked to the hard electric twang of country s Bakersfield Sound, but don t tell that to Merle Haggard. The Bluegrass Sessions, released...
More »AP - Oct 1, 2007
Merle Haggard, The Bluegrass Sessions (McCoury Music) Merle Haggard first incorporated bluegrass into his sound 40 years ago with his 1967 hit, The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde, which featured Glen Campbell...
More »Reuters - Jul 10, 2007
Country Hall of Famer Merle Haggard's four-decade career veers in a new direction of American music with the upcoming release of The Bluegrass Sessions. On the new album, due October 2 through...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2007
The Bee Gees will receive a lifetime achievement award from a music industry group in Beverly Hills in May, organizers said on Monday. The pop legends will be presented with the Icon Award during performing...
More »AP - Mar 13, 2007
Merle Haggard sometimes misses the old way of making records, when fixing an off-key note wasn t so simple and all the little mistakes were captured on vinyl. He believes it gave the music a human touch...
More »AP - Mar 5, 2007
Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las Vegas. Entertainer of the Year: Brooks...
More »AP - Mar 2, 2007
Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco all have seen country stations fail in recent years. But the return of country to the FM airwaves this...
More »Reuters - Feb 11, 2007
Music greats such as Joan Baez, The Doors and The Grateful Dead won lifetime achievement awards on Saturday, although many of those honored did not live long enough to receive them. The National Academy...
More »Reuters - Jan 26, 2007
The music of the civil rights era is on the mind of soul legend Mavis Staples. Her forthcoming spring album, We ll Never Turn Back, leans heavily on songs from the period in which the Staple Singers...
More »Reuters - Dec 27, 2006
Bob Seger told a 1975 audience at Detroit s Cobo Arena, where he taped his famed Live Bullet album, that it might just end up on a record. He ll be able to say it again this week at the Palace of Auburn...
More »E! Online - Dec 20, 2006
The quintessential jam band. Opera s most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 35 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk rock. The...
More »AP - Nov 5, 2006
Toby Keith s hit As Good As I Once Was has won country song of the year, and Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard was honored as an icon during the BMI Music Awards. Keith also shared BMI s songwriter...
More »Reuters - Oct 25, 2006
On Monday I celebrated the fifth anniversary of the iPod s introduction at the Laundromat, listening to a recent Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan on my own iPod and reading a new book about...
More »AP - Oct 20, 2006
George Jones and Merle Haggard, Kickin Out the Footlights ... Again (Bandit) Country music heroes George Jones and Merle Haggard sidestep the usual duet formula on their new album, Kickin Out the Footlights...
More »AP - Aug 30, 2006
Nominees for the 40th annual Country Music Association Awards, to be held Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn: Entertainer of the year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban....
More »E! Online - Aug 30, 2006
Stick a fork in the CMA Award nominations--they re Dunn. Brooks & Dunn and solo crooner Brad Paisley racked up six nominations apiece for the Country Music Association Awards, with Ronnie Dunn besting...
More »Reuters - Apr 12, 2006
Rascal Flatts, a group some initially branded as a country boy band, has achieved in six short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a career. In addition to numerous awards, the band...
More »AP - Mar 30, 2006
Tim McGraw asks a lot of his fans. Onstage, the country singer encourages them to live, love, dance, care, grab it all. Offstage, he urges them to vote, give blood, donate money, to help any way they...
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