“Some of his biggest hits ended up painting him as… ornery, like political sort of songs, and that’s by far a small sliver of his catalog.” He continued, “I’m a Merle Haggard ner ...

Brooks would know because Bastian wrote some of his biggest hits — “Unanswered Prayers” and “Rodeo.” Bastian died on Sunday.

Other singers he coached are Janie Fricke, David Frizzell (with Merle Haggard ... God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers,"' he wrote in the liner notes for his 1994 greatest hits compilation ...

Toto’s 2025 setlist focuses on the heritage of the band. The setlist was interesting. Compared to how it was curated for Australia in 2019 this time Toto kept to the albums of the 1900s. Mind you, ...

Not the fact that it was my kid.” In a 2014 interview with SongFacts, Gill revealed that he drew on one of his biggest influences, Merle Haggard, when writing “Billy Paul.” “There was one ...

Garth Brooks has broken his silence after songwriter Larry Bastian, who worked with the country star on hit songs like “Rodeo ...

Brooks previously celebrated the songwriter back in 1995 when he called Bastian one of “music’s greatest writers ... superstars like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Reba McEntire ...

News broke this week that the country music world has lost two more influential performers. That pushes the list of noteable country music names who have died in 2025 to at least eight. The following ...

According to the Record, he worked on a farm and as a cowboy before becoming a biologist for the Department of Agriculture ...