Merle Haggard

San Francisco's The Mother Hips Shake Their iPods For Us

For over 20 years, the Mother Hips have expertly offered a soulful, psychedelic sound that just seems to flow in the Northern Californian waters. Although it's been a while since the band's last album, the groove-tastic Pacific Central Dust, was released in 2009, word has it that a new album is nigh ... More >>

Five Non-Hank Jr. and Merle Acts to Catch at Sunday's Stockyards Music Festival

Over the course of the last few years, the Sunday before Labor Day has seen some really good times take place on the dusty plot of land next to Billy Bob's in Ft. Worth's Stockyards district. Day-long festivals headlined by acts such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, the Black Crowes and the Randy Rogers B ... More >>

Merle Haggard Tells It Like It Is

How Merle Haggard Turned Me On To Bedhead

I was fortunate enough to speak with legend Merle Haggard for this week's print edition of the Observer. Aside from being in awe each time he mentioned Willie Nelson, Lake Shasta (his home for many years, which he refers to in multiple songs) or Johnny Cash, I was particularly struck by our quick di ... More >>

Eleven Hundred Springs and Exit 380

Midway Self-released Townies (Hand Drawn Records)

Play Me Back Home: A Playlist For Rick Perry

​After what literally felt like four years, Rick Perry has finally ended his campaign for President, thrown his support at Newty G., and is returning to Texas. He said it best himself: "I know when it's time to make a strategic retreat." Ah, but he's given us so many amazing moments. Who co ... More >>

Have You Considered Occupying Monster.com?

Forgotten, But Not Lost, The Kavemen, One of Dallas's Many Great Garage Rockers of the '60s

​Longtime friends of the show know of my obsession with the local garage-rock scene of the mid-1960s; if and when I ever write a book ... Ah. Anyway. To the estimable list that includes, oh, The Chessmen, Kit and the Outlaws, Mouse and the Traps, Floyd Dakil, The Esquires, The Briks, Kenny & t ... More >>

Good Friday: Death Cab, Rock The Bells, Torche, Trae and The Rest of Your Weekend

Death Cab For Cutie​There was a time when Death Cab For Cutie would have Centro-Matic in the support slot of their regional shows. But those days are long gone. On Saturday, Death Cab will be at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie with Frightened Rabbit. But if a Centro-Matic-less Death Cab doesn ... More >>

Deion Sanders Collaborates With Snoop? Merle Haggard's Got Song About Wash? Yes and Yes.

The Old School Brother.​It's been a weird, surprisingly musical week in Dallas sports, y'all. For starters, recent Hall of Fame inductee Willie Beamen Deion Sanders is back in action on the hip-hop front. Sanders, you may recall, released a Dallas Austin-produced hip-hop album called Prime Time in ... More >>

That's the Way Downloads Go: Now You Can Own Merle Haggard's Ron Washington Song

​I listen to something from this recording of Merle Haggard at the Longhorn Ballroom back in 1982, oh, probably once a week; never do get tired of "Mama Tried" or "Tulare Dust." And I still have that whole series of "That's the Way Baseball Go" T-shirts dating back to the glorious fall of 2010. Ju ... More >>

Ryan Turner On Hank Williams, Kenny Chesney and The Problem With Modern Country

Opinionated, but still down-to-earth, Austin's Ryan Turner is the epitome of an old-school country singer. He prefers Merle Haggard to Kenny Chesney any day, and believes most popular country singers have simply lost their way. Turner has just released a new EP called Sweet Time, a five-song affa ... More >>

Watch: Dallas Native Norah Jones, 35 Conferette Performer Mavis Staples, Dave Grohl, Steven Tyler, No Doubt and Paul Simon Pay Tribute To Paul McCartney at Kennedy Center Honors

​If you've got, oh, 13 minutes or so to spare this morning, then, please, do yourself a solid and check out the pair of clips we've got posted for you after the jump. They come courtesy of CBS's Kennedy Center Honors coverage, aired last night, where Oprah Winfrey, Bill T. Jones, Merle Haggard and ... More >>

Made a Playlist, Now Checkin' it Twice: By Request, Last Night's Christmas Music Show

​Many thanks to the many folks who tuned in and called in during last night's late-night Christmas-music spectacular, which gets a replay on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) beginning, why, right this very moment. (That'll be just the three-hour yuletunes special, not the two hours of pirate-radio non-h ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Misery and Gin and Merle Haggard at the Longhorn

​A couple of years back, in his Echoes & Reverberations piece about the Longhorn, Jeff Liles ran the picture you see here -- good God, that must have been quite the back-to-back. But that's from January 1978. This week's offering comes later, in February 1982, when Merle Haggard and the Strang ... More >>

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Friday, December 10, at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton

Last Night: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson at Bass Hall

Merle Haggard, Kris KristoffersonBass Hall, Fort WorthFebruary 17, 2010Better Than: Watching classic country performances on YouTube and thinking to yourself "damn, I wish I'd seen so-and-so before he died."Patrick MichelsJust a couple legends sharing a stage. No big deal. For a slideshow of shots f ... More >>

Check Out This Jam: The Apollo Commanders, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Preservation Hall Benefit Album, Bottomless Pit, The Organ, Neil Young and The Band of Heathens

Welcome to Check Out This Jam!!!, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Also, it's a chance for you readders to get more insight into ... More >>

Wayne "The Train" Hancock

Friday, September 4, at the Granada Theater

Branded Man

The DSO welcomes The Hag

Big Bad Bob

See the life of Wills live onstage

My Own Personal Girl Scout Cookie Taste Test

Yes, it's that time of year again. Within a few days, obedient parents begin toting order forms around the office for boxes of Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos Trefoils and other life-affirming treats. As far as those who delve into the history of Girl Scouts can figure, cookie sales began with a troop in Mu ... More >>

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Have Some Joe

Big Willie Style

Willie Nelson doesn't have to continue performing—which makes his insistence to keep doing so all the more remarkable

Good Friday (On Thursday): The Fourth of July Long Weekend Edition

Willie-Nilly

Michael Holland

Simple Truths and Pleasures (Moll Records)

Bumpkin Battle

Backtrackin'

A few things you may have missed the first time

Thriftstore Cowboys

Friday, January 26, at the AllGood Café

It Was the Art!

See a vast Conspiracy at the Longhorn Ballroom

Bob Dylan

Modern Times (Columbia)

White Lightning

George Jones visits Bass Hall

Zim Vs. Hag

How the two most polar songwriters of the '60s became the same man

Branded Man

Merle Haggard is no Okie

Merle Haggard

Wednesday, September 7, at Southern Junction

Merle Haggard

Unforgettable (Hag/Capitol Nashville)

Hard-Core Honky-Tonk New Year´s Eve

Friday, December 31

Good Times

The Hag brings his songs to Fort Worth this week

Return of the Prodigal

These are Johnny Cash's Bastard Sons, in whom he is well-pleased

Do The Evolution

Merle Haggard makes a triumphant return. Wait -- he never went away.

Out of the Past

John Doe doesn't have to run from yesterdays anymore

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

Someone tell my story

Merle Haggard lives up to his legend, now more than ever

Night & Day

July 2 - 8, 1998

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

Out There

Reviews

Mekons, you Rhett

A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's