Country icon Merle Haggard has been as much of an inspiration to the mainstream music world as he has been to the scrappy indie scene bubbling beneath it, and two tribute albums that came out in the ...

The crossover between Jennings, Parton, and Haggard resides in their domination of the ’70s country music scene. Consequently, they were friends, collaborators, and in Haggard’s case, even held ...