We here at Whiskey Riff often wonder what Jolene had to look like for Dolly Parton to be worried about her stealing her man. Dolly has, across decades, been an icon that women and men adore. She’s ...

On this day, November 21, 1987, this famous country artist released his 38th and final No. 1 hit on the Billboard country charts.

Less than a week after his death, Scotty McCreery paid tribute to the late Merle Haggard with an energetic performance of "Mama Tried" at the Grand Ole Opry. The country singer took the famed stage on ...

Merle Haggard expressed his disdain for modern country music and said that Martina McBride's 'Independence Day' is one he especially hated.

It all came from that evening, in spring 1946. Merle Haggard was nine. He had been at a Church of Christ prayer meeting outside Bakersfield, California, with his mother, Flossie. The young boy didn’t ...

Merle Haggard – “the Poet of the Common Man” – is widely considered one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of country music. During a career that lasted from the 1960s until his ...

Merle Haggard is dead at 79, and that seems impossible. The performer—an American poet, ambivalent culture warrior, reformed criminal, and all-around good-time character who changed country music by ...