The Bottle Let Me Down by Merle Haggard
About The Song When Merle Haggard and The Strangers recorded their debut album Swinging Doors in 1966, Haggard wasn’t happy with the initial results. He even had a hard time…
About The Song When Merle Haggard and The Strangers recorded their debut album Swinging Doors in 1966, Haggard wasn’t happy with the initial results. He even had a hard time…
About The Song No song that evokes sadness and loneliness in Merle’s catalog as much as his potent track “Misery and Gin.” Though Merle did not write the track, he…
About The Song “If We Make It Through December” has become one of the trademark songs of country music legend Merle Haggard. While not a typical Christmas song, it has…
About The Song The origin of “That’s The Way Love Goes” belonged to songwriter Sanger D. Shafer (known as “Whitey” Shafer), who had the initial idea on a day in…
About The Song Merle Haggard initially encountered Blaze Foley’s music when he cut “If I Could Only Fly” with Willie Nelson in 1987, after which the country icon became one…
About The Song Unexpected fatherhood, a topic that Kenny Chesney’s “There Goes My Life” talks about, but men often dread. Being a father is no joke and is something good…
About The Song “The Fightin’ Side of Me” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1970…
About The Song Faith Hill was raised in the small town of Star, Mississippi, singing in talent shows and gaining inspiration from an Elvis Presley concert at the age of…
About The Song It was surely one of the more remarkable chart debuts of the pre-rock’n’roll era, and it was potentially “just” a novelty answer record. On July 19, 1952,…
About The Song When Tim McGraw released his eighth studio album in 2004, he couldn’t have predicted that the record’s titular song, “Live Like You Were Dying” would become one…