"I think Merle is a great singer and songwriter, and probably he was in as bad a shape as I was, but we’ve never been close since that night.” ...

Merle Haggard's former Bakersfield ... with his second wife, Bonnie Owens; his children Dana, Marty, Kelli and Noel; and his mother Flossie. They moved in in June of 1969. "Talk about culture ...

Bonnie Owens, a cocktail waitress-turned-singer who was married at different times to country music giants Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, died Monday in Bakersfield after a lengthy struggle with ...

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The Class of 2017 includes Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and more. Haggard, Owens, Red Simpson, Billy Mize and Bonnie Owens will be inducted into the Bakersfield Music Hall of Fame during a special ...

“He writes them and I write them down” Bonnie Owens once told Bob Eubanks about her one-time husband, Merle Haggard. Married from 1965 to 1978, Haggard and Owens’ relationship was one of the ...

Haggard’s hit single, meanwhile, featured Owens on background vocals and a ... Of special note is the familiar B-side of “The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde.” Never released as a single by ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Bonnie Owens, a singer who married and helped build the careers of country music legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, has died. She was 76. Owens died at a Bakersfield ...

Merle brought me on in Vegas that ... whose first wife, singer Bonnie Owens, divorced him and went on to become Haggard’s second wife (and longtime back-up singer). In January 1972, during ...

Merle Haggard, the working man’s poet ... Mr. Haggard recorded “Just Between the Two of Us,” a duet with future wife Bonnie Owens, and “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers,” which ...

Bonnie Owens, a singer who married and helped build the careers of country music legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, has died. She was 76. Owens died at a Bakersfield hospice hospital Monday ...

Bonnie Owens, a singer who married and helped build the careers of country music legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, has died. She was 76. Owens died at a Bakersfield hospice hospital Monday ...