Merle Haggard

While most of us are preparing for the holidays, a select few are concerned that on Friday, December 21, Mayan prophecies will come true and the world will end. Even Merle Haggard is trying to figure out what to do with his stock portfolio in light of the potential apocalypse.

Merle Haggard attempted to go home to Northern California last week, following treatment for double pneumonia. However, he returned to the hospital partway through the bus ride, realizing something still wasn’t right.

Merle Haggard will be heading home to northern California soon. WMAZ in Macon, Ga. reports that the 74-year-old singer’s condition has improved and that he’ll be released shortly.

Willie Nelson is a country music legend and he is currently working on a new project. The project is expected to be out sometime in January with the title track being 'Roll Me up and Smoke Me When I Die', a new tune he has been performing at shows lately - and might I ad, a very fitting song for Mr. Nelson. Hear the song on the next page.

Merle Haggard suffered a bit of a health scare over the weekend, when an illness forced him to cancel a show in Ft. Worth, Texas and sent him briefly to the hospital. Fans of the 74-year-old country legend can rest easy, however, because he’s heading home to California, and although his spokesperson didn’t say what put him under the weather, the short length of Haggard’s hospital stay has to be ta

Cancer survivor Merle Haggard says he’s “swinging back in full throttle right now,” and his engine is revving thanks in part to his new album, ‘Working in Tennessee,’ which is due Oct. 4 on Vanguard Records. “Music keeps me alive. It makes me breathe better,” says Haggard, who had a cancerous tumor removed from his right lung in November 2008.

Join me Sunday Dec. 5th for the 98 country classic show 9:00 am till 1:00 pm and thats every Sunday. This Sunday on country Classic Spotlight it"s the music of Merle Haggard, 11:am Sunday. Join me on air and online this Sunday Dec.5th.