Every friendship has its funny feuds and comedic confrontations. That being so, Merle Haggard and Alan Jackson experienced these as well and it all took place over a delectable slice of lemon pie.

Merle Haggard wrote “Mama Tried” and released it in 1968 as the sole single from the album of the same name. It topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for four weeks. However ...

in the mid-1960s from acts such as Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and Merle Haggard and the Strangers and recently ... “It’s always exciting to bring those songs to the band,” he says.