Merle Haggard

  • Around the Web: Closet country liberals? Plus: Billy Bragg and Britain's answer to the Grammys

    February 16, 2006

  • Music 2000

    Call it the year of the dogs: Woof-woof. Still, there were 25 records worth listening to again and again.
    By Joe Heim December 21, 2000

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000
    By Joyce Millman November 15, 2000

  • Merle Haggard

    From prison and politics to rambling and romance, his journey has been, well, complicated. But austere lyrics and rich country jazz have made him one of music's masters.
    By Alex Halberstadt November 14, 2000

  • Do not disturb

    On a small Nicaraguan island, two strangers and I find paradise. Naked on a pristine beach, I wonder if there's anything wrong with cliché.
    By Jason Wilson May 13, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Two Buck Owens reissues imagine Christmas as a mostly secular holiday.
    By Gary Kaufman December 16, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it time for a female vice president? Plus: Get that spam out of my mailbox; "Millionaire" contestant gives Philbin the thumbs-up.
    Letters to the Editor November 22, 1999

  • Merle Haggard

    For 35 years the country music legend's been kickin' ass and making God laugh -- he don't need no stinkin' sound check.
    By Elizabeth Bukowski November 15, 1999

  • "Boy, you sing like your granddaddy"

    Hank Williams III pays a debt to Nashville -- and looks toward Texas for real country music.
    By David Bowman November 3, 1999

  • Rogue advertisers

    Who's to blame for trashy mags? Intestinal fatigue? Speak and others grapple with their demons. Plus: Embalming alternatives and Ikea obsession.
    By Jenn Shreve October 15, 1999

  • The Baron of Bakersfield

    With his unmistakable honky-tonk sound and 15 No. 1 hits in a row, Buck Owens owned country music.
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    By King Kaufman February 23, 1999

  • Paint it black

    A prayer for his holy hipness, Johnny Cash
    By David Bowman December 5, 1997

  • Wall-to-wallowing carpet

    The songs on British folk singer Beth Orton's "Trailer Park" will brighten any Winnebago.
    By Sarah Vowell June 27, 1997
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