Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic – March 29, 2009 As long as people speak of country music, the music of Merle Haggard will live. As his career nears the half-century mark, Haggard’s imprint is as deeply etched on the music as those of the spiritual forebears he...
By Contactmusic.com, March 25, 2009 MERLE HAGGARD and DOLLY PARTON have been announced as the early winners at this year’s (09) Academy of Country Music Awards. Haggard, who is recovering from cancer surgery, and the late Harlan Howard will receive the Poets Award for their songwriting contributions to country...
Written by Craig Shelburne, March 24, 2009 Other Honorees Include Kenny Rogers and the Late Harlan Howard and Jerry Reed Merle Haggard and the late Harlan Howard will receive this year’s Academy of Country Music Poets Award for their songwriting contributions to the country music canon. The ACM announced...
Story by: Country Musings by Robert Loy, March 2009 This column is being written during the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s presidency, in a weird national mixture of hope and fear, the likes of which haven’t been since the days of the great D-word back in the 1930′s. All...
By PRESTON JONES – Posted on Fri, Mar. 13, 2009 – Star-Telegram.com DALLAS — Few would call any of Nashville’s legends — George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson — spry, but that doesn’t mean they lack fire. One such icon, Merle Haggard, temporarily brought low by lung cancer late...
- Award From Country Radio Broadcasters Gerry House, Chuck Collier, Bob McKay, Moon Mullins Are Hall of Famers March 4, 2009; Written by Edward Morris – CMT Merle Haggard‘s ongoing clash with lung cancer hasn’t made him any less sharp-tongued than he was in his glory days. In Nashville...
March 2, 2009 — Downtown Nashville will be crowded with country singers and influential broadcasters this week as the 40th annual Country Radio Seminar gets underway. The centerpiece of the conference has radio programmers and decision makers from all over the U.S. descending on Music City to network, share...