In a video posted to Willie Nelson’s YouTube channel, the Redheaded Stranger and Merle Haggard discussed the impromptu recording of “Pancho and Lefty.” The folk ballad about a pair of star-crossed ...

I recall writer Peter Guralnick's description of interviewing Haggard in 1978: "Merle has the disarming knack of making his listener feel as if he or she is the only person on earth." During a ...