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Merle Haggard

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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.


— Merle Haggard


#guitar #kind #likes #music #old

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.


— Merle Haggard


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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.


— Merle Haggard


#happening #i #lately #like #melody

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.


— Merle Haggard


#hour #life #look #may #more

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.


— Merle Haggard


#been #broadcasts #burns #condition #could

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!


— Merle Haggard


#charge #everybody #george #george carlin #i

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.


— Merle Haggard


#becomes #come #further #get #go

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.


— Merle Haggard


#area #been #creativity #draw #ever






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Did you know about Merle Haggard?

He married his current wife Theresa Ann Lane on September 11 1993. He was arrested for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957 and was sent to the San Quentin state prison for three years. It's always been my nature to fight the system.

Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6 1937) is an American country music song writer singer guitarist fiddler and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal and a rough edge not heard on the more poliMerle Haggardd Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

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