Source: Brandon Griggs and Todd Leopold, CNN, April 6, 2016 Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me” made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died. He was 79. Haggard died Wednesday, his birthday, of complications from pneumonia at his… Continue reading Merle Haggard, country music's outsider hero, dies at 79