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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