Bakersfield and Muskogee, Okla. are not officially sister cities, but next week, they might as well be as there's going to be a lot of Bakersfield in Muskogee on Thursday. Exactly 55 years to the day ...

Muskogee celebrates Merle Haggard with a statue and songs Thursday — the 55th anniversary of Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee" performance at Civic Center. "It is going to be a fabulous evening ...

A champion steer named after country music legend Merle Haggard netted $180,000 at the Big Tex Youth Livestock Auction on ...

Watch Blake Shelton perform with Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard and see what he said about it years ...

Jade Stone, a senior at Stanton High School, was the proud winner of the Grand Champion steer competition at the 76th Annual ...

Likely the one and only time Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings shared the stage. Of course, they had a notorious fallout ...

Watch Merle Haggard perform his classic 1977 hit "Ramblin' Fever" on the classic TV show 'Pop! Goes the Country' ...

Reba McEntire had a very good reason for not wanting to meet Merle Haggard. Even when they were on tour together in the early ...

Better Than Jail, a new benefit album that contains a 12-track lineup of iconic prison song covers, was released today, ...

Organizers for Saturday’s Rineyville Day festivities are hoping for perfect weather. Especially as they welcome in Ben ...

Kristofferson's individualism and dogged brilliance helped him kick down genre walls and light the path for other country ...

American Idol winner Scotty McCreery and more country music artists are embracing the new voices finding success in the genre ...