During 'Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard', the Avett Brothers covered Haggard's iconic Mama Tried.

On this day in 1981, a thief stole $175,000-worh of country legend Merle Haggard's gear from a parking lot in Houston Texas.

In the days following Merle Haggard's death, Scotty McCreery performed the legend's Mama Tried live at the Grand Ole Opry.

Mama Tried is certainly not the best of Merle Haggard but sufficient justification for buying the record anyway is the title song and the cover concept it inspired.

Country music legend Merle Haggard died on Wednesday — his 79th birthday. He'd been fighting various health problems for a long time, but he kept on performing and releasing new albums.

Will Oldham has always been a vocal admirer of country legend Merle Haggard, who died last year. The first time Oldham ever sang in public, it was a Haggard song. And this spring, under his Bonnie ...

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.

Merle Haggard, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose autobiographical prison songs and populist political anthems, notably “Mama Tried” and “Okie From Muskogee,” made him one of country ...

Merle Haggard was a punk rocker before the term was even coined. Not that he ever churned out feedback-drenched, three-chord anthems of angst, but he was, and is, the very embodiment of the spirit ...

The first single from Reed's tribute to Merle Haggard retains the song's personality and gives it a Memphis soul twist.

Merle Haggard Dead at 79 Country music star was known for being an outlaw hero and inspiring fans and fellow musicians.

Legendary country music performer Merle Haggard died at the age of 79 Wednesday, which happens to be his birthday. Haggard was best known for hits such as "Okie From Muskogee" and "Mama Tried ...