One noteworthy cut is Joe Nichols’ take on the deep catalog Haggard track “Footlights.” The singer recorded the song for his current album “Crickets,” and spoke last September of the song’s importance to him. “For me, that’s a personal moment that my dad would love. It’s also...
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...
The song “Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash” was recorded for Nelson and Haggard’s “Django and Jimmie” collaboration album that was released in 2015. It would be their last studio album together, and it took only three days to record the entire project. On the song featured below, singerBobby ...
but I know way back when he didn’t. Buck Owens did, and he recorded some of my early songs. Merle Haggard —“Mama Tried,”“The Bottle Let Me Down,”“I’m a Lonesome Fugitive.” I can’t imagine Waylon Jennings singing “The Bottle Let Me Down.” ...
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