By David Cantwell
ISBN-10: 0292717717
ISBN-13: 9780292717718
Merle Haggard has loved inventive triumphs few can fit. He’s charted greater than 100 nation hits, together with thirty-eight quantity ones. He’s published dozens of studio albums and one other part dozen or extra reside ones, played upwards of 10000 concert events, been inducted into the rustic song corridor of reputation, and obvious his songs played through artists as assorted as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, the thankful lifeless, and Bob Dylan. In 2011 he used to be feted as a Kennedy middle Honoree. yet previously, nobody has taken an in-depth examine his occupation and physique of work.
In Merle Haggard: The working Kind, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory trip via Haggard’s song and the existence and instances out of which it got here. overlaying the total breadth of his occupation, Cantwell focuses specially at the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, whilst Haggard created a few of his best-known and so much influential tune, which helped invent the the United States we are living in at the present time. Listening heavily to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including songs corresponding to “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me again Home,” “Mama Tried,” “Working guy Blues,” “Kern River,” “White Line Fever,” “Today i began Loving You Again,” and “If We Make It via December,” between many more), Cantwell explores the interesting contradictions—most of all, the will for freedom within the face of limits set by means of the realm or self-imposed—that outline not just Haggard’s tune and public personality however the very middle of yank culture.
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