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And I sometimes wonder what was going through Merle Haggard’s mind when the mayor of Muskogee made him an “Honorary Okie” in the middle of his concert there on October 10th, 1969. I mean, they made an album of the show, so you can hear the joke he cracks in the moment but I d...
Merle Haggard was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, one of the most popular country music performers of the late 20th century, with nearly 40 number one country hits between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. Haggard’s parents moved from the