If you look up ten lists or playlists of country Christmas songs, you’ll likely find Merle Haggard’s 1973 No. 1 hit “If We Make It Through December” in at least five of them. In my opinion, it’s out ...

Over the Rhine‘s Blood Oranges in the Snow may be a Christmas album, but it’s one that explores the bittersweet side of the holidays, long after the bells have stopped jingling. Bandmates Linford ...

Cody Johnson did not slow down during the COVID-19 slowdown. In addition to a double album and documentary, he also recorded a Christmas album, set for release this fall. "That’s a Christmas song, by ...

Only three Christmas singles from the time period that I consider the "true classic country era" made the top of the country music charts: Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer," Ernest Tubb's ...

For today’s prize, we’re going a little old school –as in Merle Haggard old school. The grizzled country legend will perform at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 8 p.m. Jan. 23. Thanks to the holiday-spirited ...

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It’s difficult to imagine anyone other than Merle Haggard—the archetypal outlaw, often bearded, a little skeptical around the eyes, a little bit somewhere else—including a song called “If We Make It ...