Merle Haggard : the running kind

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    • Cantwell, David

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Merle Haggard : the running kind

David Cantwell

(American music series)

University of Texas Press, 2013

1st ed

  • : pbk

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Discography: p. [275]-279

Includes bibliographical references

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Silver Wings," Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001 1. "Hungry Eyes," 1969 2. The Roots of His Raising 3. "Mama Tried," 1968 4. Toward the Bad He Kept on Turnin' 5. He Loves Them So: A Playlist of Early Influences 6. "Leonard," 1981 7. The Bakersfield Sound and Fury 8. Someone Told His Story in a Song 9. "I Started Loving You Again," 1968 10. The Legend of Bonnie and Him 11. "Sing Me Back Home," 1967 12. He's Living in the Good Old Days 13. He Likes Living Right and Being Free 14. "Irma Jackson," 1969 15. His Fightin' Side 16. He'd Rather Be Gone 17. "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)," 1972 18. He Wishes He Was Santa Claus 19. He Takes a Lot of Pride in What He Is (Hint: He's a White Boy) 20. "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today," 1977 21. His Country Girl with Hot Pants On 22. He's Always on a Mountain When He Falls 23. "Rainbow Stew," 1981 24. He Wishes a Buck Was Still Silver (Not Really) and Likes the Taste of Yesterday's Wine (Really) 25. "Kern River," 1985 26. He's Going Where the Lonely Go 27. "Me and Crippled Soldiers," 1990 28. The Hag versus the Man in Black 29. If He Could Only Fly: Merle Haggard in the Twenty-first Century Cuba, Missouri, July 15, 2010 Selected Discography Acknowledgments

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