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Merle Haggard first incorporated bluegrass into his sound 40 years ago with his 1967 hit, “The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde,” which featured Glen Campbell on banjo. While honky tonk, Western swing and ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A Merle Haggard bluegrass album may be a strange concept to some, but it's not really a stretch at all. Backed by an all-star band that includes Marty Stuart, Carl Jackson and ...

Sturgill Simpson's newly released Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions features bluegrass versions of songs in his back catalog -- that is, until its 12th and final track. Haggard and ...

If you're a fan of the late Merle Haggard and bluegrass music, JD Crowe & Ricky Wasson's "Hats Off to Haggard" (Truegrass Entertainment) is an album you'll want to have. In 2016, J.D. Crowe and Ricky ...

Don't look for the plastic cowboys of today's country charts to try this, but Merle Haggard feels right at home amid this acoustic music. The grizzled bard of Bakersfield keeps his own music fresh ...

Sturgill Simpson has surprise-released a second bluegrass album. Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions arrived early Friday morning with 12 new recordings, including the previously unheard ...

Country stars, rock stars, alt-country heroes and bluegrass angels all came together to celebrate Merle Haggard on Thursday night (April 6) in Nashville. Willie Nelson and Keith Richards of the ...

With “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” the 1949 Flatt & Scruggs bluegrass tune, revitalized by its inclusion in the film’s chase scenes, other music inspired by the film would soon flood the market both in ...

Merle Haggard has been churning out albums for nearly 40 years, fashioning a career as an iconoclastic country-music legend and scoring dozens of hits — including that slap at the hippie generation, ...

Merle Haggard first incorporated bluegrass into his sound 40 years ago with his 1967 hit, "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde," which featured Glen Campbell on banjo. While honky tonk, Western swing and ...