"Is the best of the free life behind us now?" Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. AP “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 ...

Ronnie Dunn's live rendition of Merle Haggard's "That's the Way Love Goes" will make you feel like you've been transported back in time to a hazy, smoke-filled honky tonk. That's a good thing — ...

“Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House ...

In this June 28, 2015, file photo, singer-songwriter Merle Haggard performs at the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival in Dover, Del. Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.

This week in 1884, Swiss-born scientist John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis, Missouri, came up with an idea that earned him a patent: evaporated milk; This week in 1949, "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" ...