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Time to mark your calendar for the 2011 Stagecoach Festival featuring country, bluegrass, folk, roots rock and alt-country. Organizers confirm that the festival will be April 30 and Sunday, May 1, 2011 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif...

Joe Nichols can certainly hold his own as a classic country singer, but he credits two legendary performers on influencing his singing style -- Merle Haggard and George Strait. King George is also a role model for the 'Gimmie That Girl' singer in terms of a career, as well...

As suggested by the title of his latest album, the Americana-chart-topping 'I Am What I Am,' country music icon Merle Haggard makes no excuses for his outspoken opinions and pulls no punches when it comes to recounting the hardscrabble life he's led...

Joe Nichols has had his share of career highlights, but most recently, the singer got to do what he does best in front of a living legend. "I sang 'Okie from Muskogee' for Merle Haggard last year when the ACM honored Merle," Joe tells The Boot...

Every Monday, The Boot updates fans on where to find your favorite country stars on TV throughout the week. Here's what's happening this week. Merle Haggard is honored in the PBS documentary, 'Learning to Live With Myself,' airing on Wednesday, July 21...

"That's bluegrass music right there, y'all!" yelped Jamie Johnson of The Grascals, as fellow band member Kristin Scott Benson mesmerized the July 8 audience at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium with her blazing banjo. He was not kidding. For some 75 minutes, the two-time International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer of the Year winners plied their captivated crowd with music that al

Merle Haggard is, no doubt, a living legend in today's music world. When he sings of spending time in prison, he speaks from experience. When he writes lyrics about going in the wrong direction despite his mother's attempt to steer him right, he's writing a non-fictional chapter from his life...

Ronnie Dunn needs to keep his mouth shut for a few more weeks. Brooks & Dunn have announced their Last Rodeo tour will resume in Indianapolis, Ind. on July 16. Several June and July dates on the trek had to be postponed after Ronnie became ill and doctors put him on strict vocal rest. T...

While it has become common practice at this time of the week for The Boot to give readers a recap of how your favorite are doing on the country sales charts, there's simply not a whole lot of action to report! Lady Antebellum are spending their 19th week at No...

Merle Haggard recently released his first album, 'I Am What I Am,' on his new label, Vanguard Records. But, while the legendary singer is proud of the CD, he's relishing his successful battle with lung cancer even more. Diagnosed in November of 2008 -- and now cancer-free -- Merle says it was faith more than medicine that saved his life...