From a troubled childhood to the unforgiving walls of a San Quentin prison cell, Merle Haggard certainly overcame plenty of obstacles on his own to get to some of his greatest career highs, but none ...

A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle Haggard’s "The Fightin’ Side of Me" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot ...