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The Hag - The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard (Hardcover)
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The Hag - The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard (Hardcover)
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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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