MERLE HAGGARD!
2007-10-11 11:53:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Country
MAMA TRIED!!!
2007-10-11 12:15:12 · answer #1 · answered by Grand Poobah 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Emerging from prison in the 1960s, Haggard was one of the early innovators of the Bakersfield Sound. With his hard biting electric guitar, he almost singlehandedly introduced the electric sound to country music. By the 1970s, he was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. His work in familiar country themes – jail, betrayal, drinking and wandering – include a directness that reflects his own life experience. His deep, grumbling voice and his guitar work gives his country a blues-like quality in many cuts.
2007-10-11 21:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by Peepaw 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
the first word is friend. I then think legend but don't know if that is a high enough accolade for this true giant in country music. He is one who rose from abject poverty through divorce,a stretch in prison, failed marriages, drugs,tax problems etc. and is still here to sing for us his legion of fans. Long live the great MERLE HAGGARD.
2007-10-11 19:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Fool 4 Tommy Collins ? ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are The Good Times Really Over
2007-10-11 19:16:22 · answer #4 · answered by mogravy75 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big City, That's the Way it Was In 51,
Just Between the Two of us.
2007-10-11 19:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by Laura C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favourite classic country artist! "Okie From Muskogee", "Mamma Tried", "Pancho & Lefty", "Rainbow Stew","Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink", "Cherokee Maiden", "Footlights" and hundreds more!
I remember him telling about being in prison during his youth. He said he didn't know what "incorrigble" meant on his prison record, but that the last guy that had it on his was executed.
2007-10-11 19:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by Pinyon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see that Okie From Muskogee album cover with the brown background and the pictures.
2007-10-11 19:08:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sing Me Back Home because that was the first song I liked by him. High On a Hill Top was anougher.
2007-10-12 11:22:21 · answer #8 · answered by Brad M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okie from Muskogee
2007-10-11 19:21:55 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Fancy♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Rags to Riches story, the working man's poet
2007-10-11 19:00:51 · answer #10 · answered by caveman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My best friend Scott b/c Merle is his idol.
2007-10-12 09:11:23 · answer #11 · answered by loretta 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋