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The Running Kind - Listening to Merle Haggard (Hardcover)
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The Running Kind - Listening to Merle Haggard (Hardcover)
Series: American Music Series
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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.
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