Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggardwas an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band the Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth6 April 1937
CityOildale, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.
The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
No, it's not love, but it's not bad.
Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.