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Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California , toward the end of the Great Depression .
The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years: Release date: August 31, 2004; Label: Epic Records — 139 Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard: Release date: September 12, 2006; Label: Capitol Nashville; 59 — 10 Great Songs: Release date: July 3, 2012; Label: Capitol Nashville; 75 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Bestselling author Marc Eliot's biography of Merle Haggard dives into his "self-created turmoil" that encompassed his "triumphant and tragic" life.
The album contains two number-one country hits, "Hungry Eyes" (sometimes referred to as "Mama's Hungry Eyes") and "Workin' Man Blues".According to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music, Haggard wrote "Hungry Eyes" as a tribute to his mother and the sacrifices she made for her family as a single mother (Haggard's father having died when he was 9), but it also stands as a tribute ...
I Love Dixie Blues... was released in July 1973 and topped the Billboard country albums chart. In his 2013 biography Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, David Cantwell wrote the album "is a thrilling document, loose and lively in a way Haggard had rarely been even at his finest.
In his 2013 book The Running Kind, Haggard biographer David Cantwell contends that Hag was "the most sustained and closest-to-coherent political statement of his career...The world Hag portrays on Hag is one teetering on the brink. From atop some middle-American watchtower, Merle delivers a nearly despairing state of the union."
Gordon Terry (October 7, 1931 – April 9, 2006) was an American bluegrass and country music fiddler and guitarist. He was a member of Merle Haggard's backing band The Strangers.
"Okie from Muskogee" is a song recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers, which Haggard co-wrote with drummer Roy Edward Burris. "Okie" is a slang name for someone from Oklahoma, and Muskogee (population 40,000) is the 13th largest city in the state.