Merle Haggard

Born: Bakersfield, CA, 1937

Years Active: 1967-2008

Influenced by: Tommy Collins, Bob Wills, Jimmie F. Rodgers, Emmett Miller, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams

Genre: Country

Biography: As a performer and a songwriter, Merle Haggard was the most important country artist to emerge in the 1960s. Haggard became ...

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Best Country Drinking Songs: No. 18
Mar 04 2008 13:00PM by The Boot Staff

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The Boot: 'The Bottle Let Me Down'--Merle Haggard (1966) Cheers-worthy lines: "I've always had a bottle I could turn to / And lately I've been turnin' every day."The Hag has had his share of troubles from turning to the bottle. Behind bars for a drunken... Read more

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The Bluegrass Sessions
Released: 10/02/07
Hag's Christmas
Released: 09/18/07
Back to the Barrooms
Released: 08/22/06
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