These outlaw country songs were a bit too controversial for some radio stations around the time they were released.

If songs like “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” painted Merle Haggard as a troubled, steel-nerved poet for the Everyman, then songs like “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” were songs that added an ...

Okie from Muskogee was the first live album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers released in 1969.The album was a recorded performance at the Civic Center in Muskogee ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Country musician Merle Haggard was honored with a statue and tribute band at the same venue where he recorded his live album, 'Okie from Muskogee.' Tony Corbell, the director for the ...