April Coker, Author

Tag: Merle Haggard

  • The Little White House on Willow Branch Road

    My parents traded houses with my grandparents on my daddy’s side when I was four, which would be in 1963, so we moved from the big house to the little white house.  They decided to trade houses because the big house had more room, and then my two aunts and an uncle were still living…

  • Random Friday: When Country was Country?

    Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town,  Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Trace Adkins, Reba McEntire. All big names in today’s country music. Then there are Dwight Yoakum, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Clint Black, and many others.   But these are not really country music artists to a certain generation.  According to…