So Long Merle Haggard
 

I've never been a Country music fan but he was an local icon when I was growing up.

Country music legend Merle Haggard dies at 79

He even wrote a song about my mom's home town :1orglaugh



RIP

RIP, liked some of his stuff :thumbsup

He was a Country Music Legend. RIP

A legend in coumtry music
RIP

i was raised on the music from musicians influenced by the outlaw country style he created, jerry jeff walker, ray wiley hubbard, waylon jennings, willie nelson.......

Actually I always preferred the Chuck Wagon And The Wheels version of that song :winkwink:

RIP Merle. You had a hell of a life.

He was one of the prisoners in the audience when Johnny Cash did his San Quentin prison concert. Merle was so in awe at Johnny that he decided then and there that music is what he wanted to do, if he ever got out of prison.

He became so successful that Cali gov Ronald Reagan gave him a full pardon in 1972, expunging his lengthy criminal record.