It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of American song who passed away last Wednesday on the occasion of his 79th ...

The Bakersfield Music Hall of Fame has announced its inaugural class of inductees. The Class of 2017 includes Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and more. Haggard, Owens, Red Simpson, Billy Mize and Bonnie ...

Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than 100 country hits (38 No. 1s), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of 10,000 concerts, induction ...

They stood for decades as Bakersfield's two greatest country music stars, and long after their deaths, they still wear those crowns. Merle Haggard and Buck Owens each came from hardscrabble beginnings ...

Part of any Bakersfield entertainment writer’s duties is writing about the two musicians who created the Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Haggard died Wednesday, April 6, at 79.

If there was a Mount Rushmore of the benchmark greats of American music, Merle Haggard would have to be on it. He was among the greatest of his or any generation of country performers. A true ...

It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of American song who passed away last Wednesday on the occasion of his 79th ...