The Hag wound up serving just 2 years of the 15 year sentence and upon leaving San Quentin, made good on the promise made to ...

In a throwback interview, Merle Haggard revealed that he became a country star after his original career plan fell through.

Did you know Dolly Parton wrote and gave away two songs to her country music contemporaries Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings ...

A number of top county acts have taken home the ACM's top award multiple times, including Alabama, who won Entertainer of the ...

Riley Green left no crumbs on opening night of his 2025 Damn Country Music Tour. The trek kicked off at the Abbotsford Centre ...

Julien Baker and Torres turned 21 in prison doing life without parole. No one could steer them right, but mama tried. Mama tried, mama tried to raise them better, but her pleading they denied. That ...

Norm Hamlet is a music legend. The 90-year-old has lived an extraordinary life playing the steel guitar, making him a major contributor to the Bakersfield Sound. 17 News’ Robert Price speaks ...

Courtesy: Budd Butcher/U.S. Air Force From Merle Haggard’s “Fightin’ Side of Me” to Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” country music is often associated with ...

Queens country singer and pianist Tennessee Walt will bring the Bakersfield Sound, a mid-20th century country music genre, to the Bryant Library in Roslyn on ...

"Nashville should wake up too before it's too late," writes Simpson in a followup to a controversial Facebook post about Music Row and Merle Haggard ...