Merle Haggard Country Music Awards

This Merle Haggard Country Music Awards page is in my opinion a small list of accomplishments that Merle has contributed to the music industry for over half a century.

Merle Haggard was first voted Top New Male Vocalist in 1965 and received the Top Male Vocalist award the following year.

His accomplishments did not stop there.

Below is a list of his Academy of Country Music Awards.

       Academy of Country Music

• 1965 Top New Male Vocalist
• 1965 Top Vocal Duo with Bonnie Owens
• 1966 Top Male Vocalist
• 1967 Top Vocal Duo with Bonnie Owens
• 1969 Album of the Year - "Okie from Muskogee"
• 1969 Single of the Year - "Okie from Muskogee"
• 1969 Top Vocal Duo - with Bonnie Owens
• 1970 Entertainer of the Year
• 1970 Top Male Vocalist
• 1972 Top Male Vocalist
• 1974 Top Male Vocalist
• 1981 Top Male Vocalist
• 1982 Song of the Year - "Are The Good Times Really Over?"

       Country Music Association

• 1970 Album of the Year - "Okie from Muskogee"
• 1970 Entertainer of the Year
• 1970 Male Vocalist of the Year
• 1970 Single of the Year - "Okie from Muskogee"
• 1983 Vocal Duo of the Year - with Willie Nelson

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

• Inducted in 1994

Grammy Awards

• 1984 Best Country Vocal Performance, Male - "That's The Way Love Goes"
• 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt & Dwight Yoakam for "Same Old Train"
• 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Award - "Mama Tried"

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

• Inducted in 1977

       Kennedy Center Honors

• Inducted in 2010

Sadly, one of the great country legends of our time, died on his birthday, April 6, 2016. God Bless you Merle Haggard for making country music a pleasure to listen to and the way it should be played. 

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