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The Hag
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Author : Marc Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-01-18
The Hag written by Marc Eliot and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Music categories.
The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more. Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom, cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the fury of American music. The Hag tells, without compromise, the extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who found redemption through the music of "the common man." Merle Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the pantheon of American music and letters. The Hag is the definitive account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers of country music and rock biographies alike.
Merle Haggard
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Author : David Cantwell
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-09-15
Merle Haggard written by David Cantwell and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-15 with Music categories.
Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. He’s charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight number ones. He’s released dozens of studio albums and another half dozen or more live ones, performed upwards of ten thousand concerts, been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and seen his songs performed by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. In 2011 he was feted as a Kennedy Center Honoree. But until now, no one has taken an in-depth look at his career and body of work. In Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard’s music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the entire breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music, which helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including songs such as “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried,” “Working Man Blues,” “Kern River,” “White Line Fever,” “Today I Started Loving You Again,” and “If We Make It through December,” among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions—most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed—that define not only Haggard’s music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.
Merle Haggard Cassette
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Author : Merle Haggard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Merle Haggard Cassette written by Merle Haggard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Merle Haggard
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Author : Merle Haggard
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2002
Merle Haggard written by Merle Haggard and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.
Merle Haggard is known as "the poet of the common man." His songs are some of the most important and influential in the history of country music, on par with the likes of those by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams. Through a life as tumultuous as his music, scarred by struggles with inner demons, incarceration and addiction - all of which he has brutally and directly confronted through his lyrics - Haggard has emerged with an American songbook that captures the rough side of life with an unblinking eye gazing on the workings of the human heart. This collection comes on the heels of his acclaimed album If I Could Only Fly, his first new studio album in four years, which finds the former wildman coping with aging, taking on familial responsibilities, and learning to appreciate the wonders of home life versus the pitfalls of the highway. Haggard's lyrics demonstrate why this acclaimed member of the Country Music Hall of Fame is a legend who will live forever.
The Hag
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Author : Marc Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-01-18
The Hag written by Marc Eliot and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Music categories.
The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more. Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom, cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the fury of American music. The Hag tells, without compromise, the extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who found redemption through the music of "the common man." Merle Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the pantheon of American music and letters. The Hag is the definitive account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers of country music and rock biographies alike.
Merle Haggard
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Author : Acie Cargill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Merle Haggard written by Acie Cargill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with categories.
Country music fans and performers love the songs of Merle Haggard. Sort of like the people of the previous generation loved the songs of Hank Williams. The songs are easy to play and sing and dance to.This play is a monologue about the life of Merle Haggard. He spent a lot of time behind bars and a lot of time in bars. Drinking and performing. His hero was Jimmy Rogers, the singing brakeman, so naturally Merle did a lot of riding in freight cars.He had a unique rich voice and his own guitar style. It didn't take long for him to become very popular when he started recording. His songs were about regular people and he projects the songs so sincerely and understandable,One big hit after another for25 years in a row. Any country music show you attend will for sure feature some Merle Haggard songs. This play gives a good background to who he was and where those songs came from.
The Running Kind
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Author : David Cantwell
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The Running Kind written by David Cantwell and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Music categories.
2022 Belmont Award for the Best Book on Country Music, International Country Music Conference/Belmont University New and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than a hundred country hits (thirty-eight at number one), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of ten thousand concerts, induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and songs covered by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. In The Running Kind, a new edition that expands on his earlier analysis and covers Haggard's death and afterlife as an icon of both old-school and modern country music, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard’s music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music: songs that helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried,” and “Working Man Blues,” among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions—most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed—that define not only Haggard’s music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.
Merle Haggard S Okie From Muskogee
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Author : Rachel Lee Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-03-22
Merle Haggard S Okie From Muskogee written by Rachel Lee Rubin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-22 with Music categories.
Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion about region and class, pride and politics, culture and counterculture. But the conversation around the song, useful as it was, drowned out the song itself, not to mention the other songs on the live album-named for Okie and performed in Muskogee-that Haggard has carefully chosen to frame what has turned out to be his most famous song. What are the internal clues for gleaning the intended meaning of Okie? What is the pay-off of the anti-fandom that Okie sparked (and continues to spark) in some quarters? How has the song come to be a shorthand for expressing all manner of anti-working class attitudes? What was Haggard's artistic path to that stage in Oklahoma, and how did he come to shape the industry so profoundly at the moment when urban country singers were playing a major role on the American social and political landscape?
Sing Me Back Home
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Author : Merle Haggard
language : en
Publisher: Pocket Books
Release Date : 1984-10-03
Sing Me Back Home written by Merle Haggard and has been published by Pocket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-10-03 with Country musicians categories.
Legends Of Country Music Merle Haggard
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Author : James Hoag
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-04
Legends Of Country Music Merle Haggard written by James Hoag and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-04 with categories.
In November of 1997, a group of singers got together to perform a tribute to Merle Haggard. They asked him to sum up his life in just a few words. He said "I only need six words: A thirty-five year bus ride." That describes the life of Merle Haggard. Merle was a very private man and even though he wrote two autobiographies, it was hard to get to know the real man, the real Merle Haggard. It is said that if you wanted to know Merle Haggard, just listen to his music. It's all right there.One of the best country singers of the past 50 years has to be Merle Haggard, growing up in California, spending time in prison and finally getting his life together to produce some of the best country music ever recorded.This is a tribute to the great Merle Haggard.Inside you will find: Growing Up In California - His birth and early years growing upFirst Paying Gig and Prison Time - The first time he plays for pay and his time in prisonSan Quentin - Details on the 27 months Merle spent in prisonBuck Owens - How he got his first big breakBonnie Owens - His second wife, Bonnie, and how she affected the rest of his lifeCapitol Records - The story of his first major record contractSuperstar Status - Becoming a great star of country music"Mama Tried" - the story of one of Merle's greatest hitsTwo Live Albums - He continues with live albumsA Flood of Music - Between 1970 and 1976, Merle Haggard produced a ton of musicIf We Make It Through December - Another major album in his careerA Period of Drought - The hits are further apart and not so big. Is it all ending?The Eighties - Merle bounces back in the EightiesGeorge Jones - George Jones is one of Merle's biggest fans and a collaboratorPancho & Lefty - Another collaboration, this time with Willie NelsonDry Spell - Another period of weak sales. Is it really over for good this time?The Nineties and Beyond - Merle struggles through the Nineties and into the 2000'sThe Loss of a Great Man - We reach the end of the book with the loss of the great Merle Haggard If you like the music of Merle Haggard and would like to know the man, scroll back up and click to buy The Legends of Country Music - Merle Haggard