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Marty Haggard (born June 18, 1958) is an American country music singer. He is the son of singer-songwriter Merle Haggard . Between 1981 and 1987, Haggard charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, in addition to performing in his father's road band.
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. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth.
Jones and Haggard were largely influenced by the Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell tradition. They had also made no secret of how much they admired each other's work. In a Rolling Stone tribute to Jones after his death in 2013, Haggard recalled their first meeting: "I met him at the Blackboard Café in Bakersfield, California, which was the place to go in '61.
Country legend Merle Haggard, often called 'the Poet of the Common Man,' died Wednesday at his home near Redding, Calif.
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 ...
Several singers in the country, folk and pop genres have covered "If We Make It Through December," including Alan Jackson (on his Christmas album, Honky Tonk Christmas), Marty Robbins, Faron Young, Holly Cole. Joey + Rory recorded it for their album A Farmhouse Christmas with Merle Haggard adding background vocals as well as singing the final ...
The LP also contains some of Haggard's most delicately sung love songs, such as the melancholy "Shelly's Winter Love" and "The Farmer's Daughter." Haggard would rerecord "No Reason to Quit" for his 1983 duet album Pancho and Lefty with Willie Nelson. Hag was reissued along with Let Me Tell You About a Song on CD by Beat Goes On Records in 2002. [1]