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The Hag - The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard (Paperback)
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The Hag - The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard (Paperback)
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The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New
York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant,
The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important
country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical
career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and
into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an
extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country
Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample
songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that
illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom,
cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the
size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his
extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the
fury of American music.The Hag tells, without compromise, the
extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary
research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer
Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new
and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life
of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound
for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who
found redemption through the music of "the common man."Merle
Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted
himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to
catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired
around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who
knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or
hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the
singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that
expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag
offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and
work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the
pantheon of American music and letters.The Hag is the definitive
account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers
of country music and rock biographies alike.
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