Redd Volkaert remembers the day that the great Merle Haggard called him up and asked if he’d play guitar in his band. “I said, ‘Murph, you lying bastard.’ I was thinking it was my buddy Jim Murphy, a ...

The book was four years in the making but a lifetime in the living. It tells the story of its author, Raymond H. McDonald, and his lifelong friend Merle Haggard, maybe the greatest country music ...

True Tele masters don’t hide behind a rack of effects. They run fast, clean and out front. “You can’t just kind of fluff and play on the thing. You have to get after it and chase it and stay on it,” ...