Youtube results:
Branches of Mathematics
Pure mathematics
Applied mathematics
- Dynamical systems and differential equations
- Mathematical physics
- Computing
- Information theory and signal processing
- Probability and statistics
- Game theory
- Operations research
Related Topics
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Linear Equations
- Applied Physics
- Nano Technology
- Engineering Sciences
- Mathematical Medicine
- Fluid dynamics
- Computational Mathematics
- Gamma Ray Optics
- Onfrared Optics
- Relative Velocity
- Iciam
- Intelligent Imaging Neuroscience
- Biomedical Engineering
- Neuroscience Research
- Quantum Cosmology
- Brain Research
Open Collage in a new Window
Email the Collage
- Loading...
Loading suggestions ...
- 5 01 Blues
- Academy Award
- Alan Jackson
- Alison Krauss
- Almost Persuaded
- Always Wanting You
- Angioplasty
- Back to the Barrooms
- Bakersfield sound
- Bar Room Buddies
- Barbara Cook
- Big City (song)
- Bill T. Jones
- Blue Underground
- Bluegrass music
- Bob Edwards Show
- Bonnie Owens
- Brad Paisley
- Branded Man
- Branded Man (song)
- Brooks & Dunn
- Buck Owens
- C.C. Waterback
- California
- Capitol Records
- Carolyn (song)
- Carrie (musical)
- Charlie Daniels
- Cherokee Maiden
- Chicago Wind
- Chill Factor (song)
- Clint Black
- Clint Eastwood
- Collin Raye
- Country music
- Crash (2004 film)
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- Curb Records
- Darrell Scott
- David Frizzell
- Dean Pitchford
- Defamation
- Dwight Yoakam
- Earl Scruggs
- Ed Harris
- Emmylou Harris
- Epic Records
- Eric Church
- Ernest Tubb
- Fender Telecaster
- Fiddler
- Footloose (song)
- George Jones
- George Strait
- George Wallace
- God Bless the USA
- Grammy Awards
- Grandma Harp
- Grateful Dead
- Great Depression
- Gretchen Wilson
- Hag (album)
- Hank Cochran
- Hank Williams
- Hank Williams III
- Honky tonk
- I Can't Be Myself
- I Love Dixie Blues
- If I Could Only Fly
- Instrumentalist
- Jamey Johnson
- Janie Frickie
- Jerry Herman
- Jesus, Take a Hold
- Jewel (singer)
- Joan Baez
- Joe Diffie
- John Prine
- Johnny Cash
- Johnny Paycheck
- Keep Movin' On
- Kentucky Gambler
- Kern River (song)
- Kern River Oil Field
- Kid Rock
- Kris Kristofferson
- Larry King Live
- Las Vegas Valley
- Lee Greenwood
- Lefty Frizzell
- Leona Williams
- Leonard (song)
- Liz Anderson
- Lynn Anderson
- Mama Tried (album)
- Mama Tried (song)
- Marty Stuart
- MCA Records
- Merle Haggard
- Meryl Streep
- Migrant worker
- Miranda Lambert
- Misery and Gin
- Modesto, California
- Music genre
- My Farewell to Elvis
- My Favorite Memory
- My Own Kind of Hat
- Nashville Sound
- Neil Diamond
- Nick Gravenites
- Nuthin' Fancy
- Oildale, California
- Okie from Muskogee
- Oprah Winfrey
- Outlaw country
- Pam Tillis
- Pancho and Lefty
- Patty Loveless
- Paul McCartney
- Petty larceny
- Pride in What I Am
- Pure Prairie League
- Quentin Tarantino
- Radio (2003 film)
- Rainbow Stew
- Ramblin' Fever
- Randy Travis
- Ray Price (musician)
- Reasons to Quit
- Recession
- Record label
- Red Bandana
- Ricky Skaggs
- Robert Duvall
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronnie Dunn
- Roots, Volume 1
- Roy Nichols
- Running Kind
- San Quentin
- Serving 190 Proof
- Sheryl Crow
- Shooter Jennings
- Sing (1989 film)
- Sing Me Back Home
- Sonny Rollins
- Steve Goodman
- Street Singer (song)
- Swinging Doors
- Tender Mercies
- The Dixie Chicks
- The Fugitive (song)
- The Youngbloods
- Toby Keith
- Travis Tritt
- Truancy
- U.S. Route 99
- United States
- Vanguard Records
- Vince Gill
- Western swing
- Wikipedia Persondata
- Willie Nelson
- Workin' Man Blues
- Working in Tennessee
- Wynn Stewart
- Yo-Yo Ma
-
California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
http://wn.com/California -
Kern River Oil Field
The Kern River Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley of California, north-northeast of Bakersfield in the lower Sierra foothills. According to a California State Historical Marker of the original site in Kern County, "Oil was discovered at 70 feet in 1899, when Tom Means persuaded Roy Elwood and Frank Wiseman, aided by Jonathan, Bert, Jed, and Ken Elwood, George Wiseman, and John Marlowe, to dig here for oil. On June 1, 1899, 400 feet to the north, Horace and Milton McWhorter drilled this region's first commercial well." Yielding a cumulative production of close to of oil by the end of 2006, it is the third largest oil field in California, after the Midway-Sunset Oil Field and the Wilmington Oil Field, and the fifth largest in the United States. Its estimated remaining reserves, as of the end of 2006, were around , the second largest in the state. It had 9,183 active wells, the second highest in the state. The principal operator on the field was Chevron Corporation
http://wn.com/Kern_River_Oil_Field -
Las Vegas Valley
http://wn.com/Las_Vegas_Valley -
Modesto, California
Modesto is the county seat of Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 211,156 as of April 2009, Modesto ranks as the 17th largest city in the state of California. Modesto is located in Northern California, 92 miles east of San Francisco, 68 miles south of the state capital of Sacramento and 66 miles west of Yosemite National Park. Modesto, a 29-time Tree City USA honoree, is surrounded by rich farmland, lending to a ranking for the county as 6th among all California counties in farm production. Led by milk, almonds, chickens, cattle, and walnuts, the county grossed nearly $2.5 billion in agricultural production in 2007.
http://wn.com/Modesto_California -
Oildale, California
Oildale (formerly, Waits and North Side) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Oildale is located north-northwest of downtown Bakersfield, at an elevation of 469 feet (143 m). The population was 27,885 at the 2000 census. It is an unincorporated suburban town just north of Bakersfield across the Kern River, west of the Kern River Oilfield, and east of Highway 99.
http://wn.com/Oildale_California -
United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
http://wn.com/United_States
-
Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
http://wn.com/Alison_Krauss -
Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25, 1927) is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid 1970s, when she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer.
http://wn.com/Barbara_Cook -
Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.
http://wn.com/Bill_T_Jones -
Bonnie Owens
Bonnie Owens (October 1, 1929 – April 24, 2006), born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.
http://wn.com/Bonnie_Owens -
Brad Paisley
Bradley Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer-songwriter and country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references.
http://wn.com/Brad_Paisley -
Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 number one hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound—a reference to Bakersfield, California, the city Owens called home and from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call American music.
http://wn.com/Buck_Owens -
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (born on October 28, 1936, in Leland, North Carolina) is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.
http://wn.com/Charlie_Daniels -
Clint Eastwood
http://wn.com/Clint_Eastwood -
Collin Raye
Floyd Collin Wray (born August 22, 1959 or 1960, in De Queen, Arkansas) is an American country music singer, known professionally as Collin Raye. He made his debut on the American country music scene in 1991 with the release of his debut album All I Can Be, which produced his first Number One hit in "Love, Me". All I Can Be was the first of four consecutive albums released by Raye to achieve platinum certification in the United States for sales of one million copies each.
http://wn.com/Collin_Raye -
Darrell Scott
James Darrell Scott known as Darrell Scott (b August 6, 1959, London, Kentucky ), the son of musician Wayne Scott with whom he has collaborated, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana. He was playing professionally by his teens in Southern California, later living in Toronto and Boston. He attended Tufts University, where he studied poetry and literature. He has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, since about 1995. He has written several mainstream country hits, and also has established himself as one of Nashville's premier session instrumentalists. His brother, David Scott accompanies him on occasion on keyboard.
http://wn.com/Darrell_Scott -
David Frizzell
David Frizzell (born September 26, 1941) is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country music legend Lefty Frizzell. His career first started in the late 1950s, but his biggest success came in the '80s, 30 years into his career.
http://wn.com/David_Frizzell -
Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is a songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.
http://wn.com/Dean_Pitchford -
Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in 3-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in the "Blue Grass Boys". Scruggs built on earlier styles to develop a truly new and readily identifiable style, involving: unprecedented smoothness, syncopation, and uninterrupted flow; a large vocabulary of unique and original licks; blues and jazz phrases, evident in backup and in solos such as "Foggy Mountain Special;" and an overall coherency and polish that other stylists lacked, which inspired imitation by newer generations of banjo pickers.
http://wn.com/Earl_Scruggs -
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
http://wn.com/Emmylou_Harris -
Eric Church
Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year. This album produced four chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including the Top 20 hits "How 'Bout You," "Two Pink Lines" and "Guys Like Me." His second album, 2009's Carolina, has produced two more singles: "Love Your Love the Most" and "Hell on the Heart" which have become his first two Top 10 hits.
http://wn.com/Eric_Church -
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
http://wn.com/Ernest_Tubb -
George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.
http://wn.com/George_Jones -
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed; he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life.
http://wn.com/George_Wallace -
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
http://wn.com/Gretchen_Wilson -
Hank Cochran
http://wn.com/Hank_Cochran -
Hank Williams III
Shelton Hank Williams III, known as Hank 3 (born December 12, 1972), is an American country, punk and metal musician. The grandson of country legend Hank Williams and the son of Hank Williams Jr., he is one of the most prominent musicians to play neotraditional country in a country music market dominated by pop country.
http://wn.com/Hank_Williams_III -
Jamey Johnson
Jamey Johnson (born July 14, 1975, in Enterprise, Alabama) is an American country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar", the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar. Johnson was dropped from BNA in 2006 and signed to Mercury Nashville Records in March 2008, releasing his second album, the gold-certified That Lonesome Song. This album has produced two more singles: the Top 10 hit "In Color" and "High Cost of Living." In addition to most of his own material, Johnson has co-written singles for Trace Adkins, George Strait, James Otto, Joe Nichols and Jessie James.
http://wn.com/Jamey_Johnson -
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He is a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.[]
http://wn.com/Jerry_Herman -
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
http://wn.com/Joan_Baez -
Joe Diffie
Joe Logan Diffie (born December 28, 1958 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted thirty-five cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five Number One singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (his longest-lasting Number One, at four weeks) and "Bigger Than the Beatles". Besides these cuts, he has twelve other Top Ten singles.
http://wn.com/Joe_Diffie -
John Prine
John Prine (born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.
http://wn.com/John_Prine -
Johnny Cash
http://wn.com/Johnny_Cash -
Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck was the stage name of Donald Eugene Lytle (May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003), a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a major force in country music's "Outlaw Movement" popularized by artists such as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career suffered from his problems with drugs, alcohol, and legal difficulties. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s but his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.
http://wn.com/Johnny_Paycheck -
Kid Rock
Robert James "Bob" Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper with five Grammy Award nominations.
http://wn.com/Kid_Rock -
Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood (born October 27, 1942) is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts.
http://wn.com/Lee_Greenwood -
Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell (March 31, 1928–July 19, 1975), born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a exponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
http://wn.com/Lefty_Frizzell -
Liz Anderson
Liz Anderson (born Elizabeth Jane Haaby January 13, 1930 in Roseau, Minnesota) is an American Country Music Singer-Songwriter. She is also the mother of singer Lynn Anderson.
http://wn.com/Liz_Anderson -
Lynn Anderson
http://wn.com/Lynn_Anderson -
Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958 as John Martin Stuart), is an American country music singer, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music. In the early 1990s, he had a successful string of Country hits.
http://wn.com/Marty_Stuart -
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actors of the modern era.
http://wn.com/Meryl_Streep -
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983 in Longview, Texas) is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut album Kerosene. This album, which was certified Platinum in the United States, also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene", and "New Strings". All four singles were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
http://wn.com/Miranda_Lambert -
Nick Gravenites
http://wn.com/Nick_Gravenites -
Paul McCartney
http://wn.com/Paul_McCartney -
Quentin Tarantino
http://wn.com/Quentin_Tarantino -
Ray Price (musician)
Ray Price (born January 12, 1926) is an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. His more well-known recordings include "Release Me", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches by the Number", "City Lights", "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You", "For the Good Times", "Night Life", "I Won't Mention It Again", "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me", and "Danny Boy". He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and—now in his mid 80s—continues to record and tour.
http://wn.com/Ray_Price_(musician) -
Ricky Skaggs
For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.
http://wn.com/Ricky_Skaggs -
Ronald Reagan
http://wn.com/Ronald_Reagan -
Roy Nichols
Roy Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Telecaster.
http://wn.com/Roy_Nichols -
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop. She has won nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
http://wn.com/Sheryl_Crow -
Shooter Jennings
Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter formerly active in the country music and Southern rock genres before switching to hard rock in 2009. The only child of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Jennings signed his first recording contract, with Universal South Records, in 2005, releasing his debut album Put the "O" Back in Country that year. This album produced his only entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in its lead-off single "Fourth of July", which peaked at #26. Jennings has since followed Put the "O" Back in Country with three more albums: Electric Rodeo, Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06 (both 2006), and The Wolf (2007). In 2009, he formed a new band Hierophant and toured with them on the Warped Tour. They released their debut album Black Ribbons in 2010.
http://wn.com/Shooter_Jennings -
Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
http://wn.com/Sonny_Rollins -
Steve Goodman
http://wn.com/Steve_Goodman -
Toby Keith
http://wn.com/Toby_Keith -
Travis Tritt
http://wn.com/Travis_Tritt -
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles on the U.S. Billboard charts as Hot Country Songs, and has sold more than 22 million albums. He has been honored by the Country Music Association with 18 CMA Awards, including two Entertainer of the Year awards and five Male Vocalist Awards. Gill has also earned 20 Grammy Awards, more than any other male Country music artist. In 2007, Gill was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
http://wn.com/Vince_Gill -
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
http://wn.com/Willie_Nelson -
Wynn Stewart
Winford Lindsey Stewart (June 7, 1934–July 17, 1985), better known as Wynn Stewart, was an American country music performer. He was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound. Although not a huge chart success, he was an inspiration to such greats as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
http://wn.com/Wynn_Stewart -
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age.
http://wn.com/Yo-Yo_Ma
Karaoke:
Lyrics:
- If We Make It Through December
- Kentucky Gambler
- Silver Wings
- Son Of Hickory Holler S Tramp
- The Fighting Side Of Me
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- (i'm Gonna Paint Me A) Bed Of Roses
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- A House Without Love Is Not A Home
- Ain't Your Memory Got No Pride At All
- All Of Me Belongs To You
- Am I Standing In Your Way
- Amazing Grace
- Back To The Barrooms Again
- Because You Can't Be Mine
- Better Off When I Was Hungry
- Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
- Big Time Annie's Square
- Billy Overcame His Size
- Brain Cloudy Blues
- Branded Man
- Bring It on Down to My House, Honey
- Brown Skinned Girl [With Narration]
- California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
- California Cottonfields
- Carolyn
- Carryin' Fire
- Champagne
- Cherokee Maiden
- Closing Prayer/Just as I Am
- Corrine, Corrina
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Don't Get Married
- Don't Seem Like We've Been Together All Our Lives
- Don't You Ever Get Tired (of Hurtin' Me)
- Dream
- Drink Up and Be Somebody
- Ever Changing Woman
- Every Fool Has a Rainbow
- Everybody's Had the Blues
- Falling For You
- Fightin' Side Of Me
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Fool's Castle
- Forever And Ever
- Frankie And Johnny
- Gambling Polka Dot Blues
- Ghost Story
- Girl Who Made Me Laugh
- Go Home
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Working in Tennessee
- Down on the Houseboat
- Cocaine Blues
- What I Hate
- Sometimes I Dream
- Under the Bridge
- Too Much Boogie Woogie
- Truck Driver's Blues
- Laugh It Off
- Workin' Man Blues (feat. Willie Nelson and Ben Haggard)
- Jackson (feat. Theresa Haggard)
- Kern River
- Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
- There I've Said It Again
- You Don't Love Me Anymore
- Natural High
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Ridin' High
- There's Somebody Else on Your Mind
- I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight
- There Won't Be Another Now
- The Old Watermill
- Chill Factor
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- Man From Another Time
- We Never Touch at All
- You Babe
- Thanking the Good Lord
- After Dark
- 1929
- Thirty Again
- I Don't Have Any Love Aroud
- More Than This Old Heart Can Take
- I've Seen It Go Away
- Pretty When It's New
- Oil Tanker Train
- Live and Love Always
- The Road to My Heart
- How Did You Find Me Here
- We're Falling in Love Again
- Bad Actor
- Down at the End of the Road
- Stranger in the City
- Mexican Bands
- I Am What I Am
- Runaway Mama
- Pray
- What Happened?
- Jimmie Rodgers Blues
- Learning To Live With Myself
- Mama's Hungry Eyes
- I Wonder Where To Find You
- Holding Things Together
- Big City
- Momma's Prayers
- Wouldn't That Be Something
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
- My Mary
- Back to Earth
- Heartaches by the Number
- Mom and Dad's Waltz
- Some Other World
- Why Me
- Lost Highway
- I Love You a Thousand Ways
- Please Don't Leave Me Any More Darlin'
- I Gotta Have My Baby Back
- Branded Man
- Hungry Eyes
- Mama Tried
- Always Wanting You
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- Kentucky Gambler
- Daddy Frank
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- The Roots of My Raising
- Okie From Muskogee's Comin' Home
- Texas
- Thank You for Keeping My House
- What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)
- Mama Tried
- Misery
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- I Knew the Moment I Lost You
- Silver Wings
- Misery and Gin
- Ida Red
- Place to Fall Apart
- I Wish Things Were Simple Again
- Amber Waves of Grain
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Branded Man
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Mama Tried
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- I'm Bringing Home Good News
- Hungry Eyes
- Workin' Man Blues
- Silver Wings
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Someday We'll Look Back
- If We Make It Through December
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore
- Honky Tonk Night Time Man
- Old Man From the Mountain
- Living With the Shades Pulled Down
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Big City
- Pancho and Lefty (feat. Willie Nelson)
- I'm Leaving Now (feat. Johnny Cash)
- Runaway Mama
- That's the News
- She Ain't Hooked on Me No More (feat. Toby Keith)
- Footlights
- The Race Is On
- The Way I Am
- She Thinks I Still Care
- All My Friends Are Strangers
- Things Have Gone to Pieces
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Born With the Blues
- Sick, Sober & Sorry
- I Always Get Lucky With You
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Window Up Above
- You Take Me for Granted
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Sing Me Back Home
- Look Over Me
- Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
- Wine Take Me Away
- If You See My Baby
- Where Does the Good Times Go
- I'll Leave the Bottle on the Bar
- My Past Is Present
- Home Is Where a Kid Grows Up
- Mom and Dad's Waltz
- Good Times
- Seeing Eye Dog
- News Break
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- Is This the Beginning of the End
- Love Has a Mind of It's Own
- The Train Never Stops (At Our Town)
- Fool's Castle
- Will You Visit Me on Sundays?
- My Ramona
- Soldier's Last Letter
- Shelly's Winter Love
- Jesus, Take a Hold
- I Can't Be Myself
- I'm a Good Loser
- The Sidewalks of Chicago
- No Reason to Quit
- If You've Got Time (To Say Goodbye)
- The Farmer's Daughter
- I've Done It All
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike)
- Trouble in Mind
- Someday We'll Look Back
- Train of Life
- One Sweet Hello
- One Row at a Time
- Big Time Annie's Square
- I'd Rather Be Gone
- California Cottonfields
- Carolyn
- Tulare Dust
- Huntsville
- The Only Trouble With Me
- Spanish Two Step
- Worried, Unhappy, Lonesome and Sorry
- Mama Tried
- Green Green Grass of Home
- Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
- In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
- I Could Have Gone Right
- I'll Always Know
- The Sunny Side of My Life
- Teach Me to Forget
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Run 'em Off
- You'll Never Love Me Now
- Too Many Bridges to Cross Over
- Lookin' For My Mind
- You're Not Home Yet
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- Who'll Buy the Wine
- The Day the Rains Came
- It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
- I Can't Hold Myself in Line
- I'm Bringin' Home Good News
- Keep Me From Cryin' Today
- I Just Want to Look at You One More Time
- Somewhere on Skid Row
- I'm Free
- California Blues
- I Think We're Livin' in the Good Old Days
- California on My Mind
- White Line Fever
- Streets of Berlin
- Branded Man
- Swinging Doors
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- Sing Me Back Home
- Mama Tried
- Okie From Muskogee
- Workin' Man Blues
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Daddy Frank
- If We Make It Through December
- Pancho and Lefty (feat. Willie Nelson)
- That's the Way Love Goes (feat. Jewel)
- Swinging Doors
- Mama Tried
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- Okie From Muskogee
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Branded Man
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- If We Make It Through December
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Carolyn
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Workin' Man Blues
- Sing Me Back Home
- Big City
- Are the Good Times Really Over
- Someday When Things Are Good
- Yesterday's Wine
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
- I Always Get Lucky With You
- That's the Way Love Goes
- Going Where the Lonely Go
- A Place to Fall Apart
- I Had a Beautiful Time
- My Favorite Memory
- Pancho and Lefty
- The Okie From Muskogee's Comin' Home
- My Love Affair With Trains
- Union Station
- Here Comes the Freedom Train
- So Long Train Whistle
- The Silver Ghost
- No More Trains to Ride
- The Coming and the Going of the Trains
- I Won't Give Up My Train
- Where Have All the Hobos Gone
- Railroad Lady
- The Hobo
- The Roots of My Life
- What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana
- The Waltz You Saved for Me
- Walk on the Outside
- Gamblin' Polka Dot Blues
- Cherokee Maiden
- Am I Standing in Your Way
- Colorado
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- Drink Up and Be Somebody
- Swinging Doors
- Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me
- Some of Us Never Learn
- I Can't Hold Myself in Line
- Wine Takes Me Away
- I Threw Away the Rose
- Who'll Buy the Wine
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- No Reason to Quit
- My Love Affair With Trains
- Blues for Dixie
- My Rough and Rowdy Ways
- California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
- Waitin' for a Train
- White Main Singin' the Blues
- Train Whistle Blues
- Hobo's Meditation
- Hobo Bill's Last Ride
- The Silver Ghost
- Life's a Railway to Heaven
- The Coming and the Going of the Trains
- No More Trains to Ride
- The Hobo
- Milwaukee Road 261 at Theresa, WS
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- All of Me Belongs to You
- House of Memories
- Life in Prison
- Whatever Happened to Me
- Drink Up and Be Somebody
- Someone Told My Story
- If You Want to Be My Woman
- Mary's Mine
- Skid Row
- My Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Mixed Up Mess of a Heart
- Branded Man
- Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
- Don't Get Married
- Somewhere Between
- You Don't Have Very Far to Go
- Gone Crazy
- I Threw Away the Rose
- My Hands Are Tied
- Some of Us Never Learn
- Long Black Limousine
- Go Home
- I Made the Prison Band
- Ramblin' Fever
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
- From Graceland To The Promised Land
- My Own Kind Of Hat
- I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall
- It's Been A Great Afternoon
- The Way I Am
- The Bull & The Beaver
- If We're Not Back In Love By Monday
- Misery And Gin
- Leonard
- Rainbow Stew
select all
add to playlist
Okie from Muskogee: Recorded Live at Church St Station, Florida
Released 1996
Released 1996
- Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
- If You Want to Be My Woman
- Workin' Man Blues
- Always Late with Your Kisses
- TB Blues
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Footlights
- Big City
- Mama Tried
- Brain Cloudy Blues / Milk Cow Blues
- Begging to You
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- What Am I Gonna Do with the Rest of My Life
- Ida Red
- San Antonia Rose
- Corrine Corrina
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- Faded Love
- Fiddle Breakdown
- Right or Wrong
- Ramblin' Fever
- That's the Way Love Goes
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Okie from Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- Mama Tried
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Always Wanting You
- Workin' Man Blues
- If We Make It Through December
- Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Swingin' Doors
- I Threw Away the Rose
- Carolyn
- Okie From Muskogee
- Fightin' Side of Me
- Ramblin' Fever
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- Branded Man
- Sing Me Back Home
- Old Man From the Mountain
- Roots of My Raising
- Mama's Hungry Eyes
- The Way I Am
- Holding Things Together
select all
add to playlist
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (1963-1977)
Released 1995
Released 1995
- Sing a Sad Song
- Sam Hill
- Just Between the Two of Us (feat. Bonnie Owens)
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
- Swinging Doors
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- The Fugitive
- Someone Told My Story
- I Threw Away the Rose
- Branded Man
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Mama Tried
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- Hungry Eyes
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Mama Tried
- When Times Were Good
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- The Chill Factor
- Ida Red
- Okie From Muskogee
- Bill Cheatum (instrumental)
- Mama's Hungry Eyes ()
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Honky Tonk Night Time Man
- Footlights
- If I Could Only Fly
- Kern River
- I Knew the Moment I Lost You
- This Mornin' This Evenin' So Soon
- I Am an Island
- In My Next Life
- Way Back in the Mountains
- What's New in New York City
- Set My Chickens Free
- Chores
- Valentine
- Solid as a Rock
- Bye, Bye, Travelin' Blues
- Troubador
- Ramblin' Fever
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Mama Tried
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Swinging Doors
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Okie From Muskogee
- (From Now on My Friends Are Gonna Be) Stangers
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Mama Tried
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Branded Man
- Swinging Doors
- Carolyn
- Someday We'll Look Back
- Workin' Man Blues
- All Night Long
- Honky Tonk Night Time Man
- I'm a White Boy
- Holding Things Together
- Uncle Lem
- The Farmer's Daughter
- A Man's Got to Give up a Lot
- I've Done It All
- Goodbye Lefty
- If You've Got Time (To Say Goodbye)
- September in Miami
- A Bar in Bakersfield
- Yesterday's Wine
- Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
- A Place to Fall Apart
- Natural High
- I Had a Beautiful Time
- A Friend in California
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- Chill Factor
- 5:01 Blues
- A Better Love Next Time
- Swinging Doors
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- Sing Me Back Home
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- Hungry Eyes
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Soldier's Last Letter
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
- The Emptiest Arms in the World
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore
- Old Man From the Mountain
- Always Wanting You
- Movin' On
- The Roots of My Raising
- Here Comes the Freedom Train
- Cherokee Maiden
- Broken Friend
- Losin' in Las Vegas
- 5:01 Blues
- Someday We'll Know
- Wouldn't That Be Something
- Sea of Heartbreak
- A Better Love Next Time
- If You Want to Be My Woman
- A Thousand Lies Ago
- Somewhere Down the Line
- Footlights
- Got Lonely Too Early This Morning
- Heaven Was a Drink of Wine
- Driftwood
- I Can't Get Away
- Red Bandana
- My Own Kind of Hat
- I Must Have Done Something Bad
- I Didn't Mean to Love You
- Sing a Family Song
- Roses in the Winter
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- No Show Jones
- Pancho & Lefty
- Yesterday's Wine
- Half a Man
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Heaven or Hell
- Midnight Rider
- Are the Good Times Really Over
- A Drunk Can't Be a Man
- Amber Waves of Grain
- Medley: Tulare Dust / Mama Tried
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Medley: The Okie From Muskogee's Comin' Home / Okie From Muskogee
- Gone With the Wind
- I Wish Things Were Simple Again
- Medley: Working Man's Blues / Always Late With Your Kisses
- American Waltz
- Working Man Blues
- Always Late With Your Kisses
- American Waltz
- Kern River
- Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
- There I've Said It Again
- You Don't Love Me Anymore
- Natural High
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Ridin' High
- There's Somebody Else on Your Mind
- I Wonder Where I'll Find You Tonight
- There Won't Be Another Now
- The Old Watermill
- Movin' On
- Life's Like Poetry
- I've Got a Darlin' (For a Wife)
- These Mem'ries We're Making Tonight
- You'll Always Be Special
- September in Miami
- Always Wanting You
- Kentucky Gambler
- Here in Frisco
- I've Got a Yearning
- A Man's Gotta Give Up a Lot
- If We Make It Through December
- Love and Honor
- To Each His Own
- You're the Only Girl in the Game
- I'm an Old, Old Man
- Come on in to My Arms
- Better Off When I Was Hungry
- I'll Break Out Again Tonight
- This Cold War (72)
- Uncle Lem
- There's Just One Way
- Swinging Doors
- If I Could Be Him
- The Longer You Wait
- I'll Look Over You
- I Can't Stand Me
- The Girl Turned Ripe
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- No More You and Me
- Someone Else You've Known
- High on a Hilltop
- This Town's Not Big Enough
- Shade Tree (Fix It Man)
- Swingin' Doors
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Branded Man
- Sing Me Back Home
- Mama Tried
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side Of Me
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Carolyn
- Misery and Gin
- Back to the Barrooms
- Make-Up and Faded Blue Jeans
- Ever-Changing Woman
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- I Don't Want to Sober Up Tonight
- Can't Break the Habit
- Our Paths May Never Cross
- I Don't Have Any More Love Songs
- Leonard
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- The Way I Am
- Sky-Bo
- No One to Sing For (But the Band)
- (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You
- Life's Just Not the Way It Used to Be
- Wake Up
- Where Have You Been
- Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
- I'll Always Be Glad to Take You Back
- It Makes No Difference Now
- It's Been So Long Darlin'
- This Song Is Mine
- Shopping for Dresses
- Wouldn't That Be Something
- There Won't Be Another Now
- Love Don't Hurt Every Time
- Carryin' Fire
- You Babe
- Ridin' High
- Without You on My Side
- Natural High
- Don't Seem Like We've Been Together All Our Lives
- Love Keeps Hanging On
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
- Thanking the Good Lord
- Mama Tried
- Sing A Sad Song
- Swinging Doors
- I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
- Branded Man
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
- Hungry Eyes
- Workin' Man Blues
- Silver Wings (Duet With Jewel)
- Okie From Muskogee
- The Fightin' Side Of Me
- Daddy Frank
- Carolyn
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- Everybody's Had The Blues
- If We Make It Through December
- Old Man From The Mountain
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore
- Movin' On (Duet With Brooks & Dunn)
- Always Wanting You
- It's All In The Movies
- Workin' Man Blues
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- Moanin' The Blues
- Blues For Dixie
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- White Man Singin' The Blues
- Cotton Patch Blues
- T.B. Blues
- Gamblin' Polka Dot Blues
- Brain Cloudy Blues
- The Fugitive
- Mama Tried
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- If We Make It Through December
- If We're Not Back in Love by Monday
- Ramblin' Fever
- I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall
- It's Been a Great Afternoon
- The Way I Am
- Misery and Gin
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- Rainbow Stew (live)
- Sing Me Back Home (live)
- Yesterday's Wine (feat. George Jones)
- Pancho and Lefty (feat. Willie Nelson)
- That's the Way Love Goes
- Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- If I Could Only Fly
- Always Late (With Your Kisses)
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Swinging Doors
- Sing Me Back Home
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Branded Man
- Mama Tried
- Hungry Eyes
- Silver Wings
- California Blues
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
- Okie From Muskogee
- Workin' Man Blues
- If We Make It Through December
- Ramblin' Fever
- Big City
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- That's the Way Love Goes
- Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
- Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- Chill Factor
- Skid Row
- Workin' Man Blues
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Sing Me Back Home
- Ramblin' Fever
- Mama Tried
- Kentucky Gambler
- It's All in the Movies
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
- If We Make It Through December
- Hungry Eyes
- Daddy Frank
- Cherokee Maiden
- Okie From Muskogee
- Old Man From the Mountain
- The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde
- Legend of Bonnie & Clyde
- Is the Beginning of the End?
- Love Has a Mind of Its Own
- Train Never Stops
- Fool's Castle
- Will You Visit Me on Sundays?
- My Ramona
- I Started Loving You Again
- Money Tree
- You Still Have a Place in My Heart
- Because You Can't Be Mine
- I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
- Who'll Buy the Wine
- Day the Rains Came
- It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
- I Can't Hold Myself in Line
- I'm Bringin Home Good News
- Keep Me From Cryin Today
- I Just Want to Look at You One More Time
- Somewhere on Skid Row
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- Falling For You
- Please Mr. D.J.
- You Don't Have Far To Go
- Sing A Sad Song
- Sam Hill
- I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
- You Don't Even Try
- If I Had Left It Up To You
- I'd Trade All Of My Tomorrows
- The Worst Is Yet To Come
- Walking The Floor Over You
- Okie From Muskogee
- Mama Tried
- If We Make It Through December
- The Fightin' Side of Me
- Sing Me Back Home
- Hungry Eyes
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Branded Man
- Workin' Man Blues
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
- It's All in the Movies
- Kentucky Gambler
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- Old Man From the Mountain
Send this Playlist by SMS
Email this Page
Merle Haggard -- Okie From Muskogee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:39
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
1968
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_-_Okie_From_Muskogee
Merle Haggard -- The Fightin' Side Of Me
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
1968
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_-_The_Fightin'_Side_Of_Me
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 22 Jul 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
.
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Mama_Tried
Merle Haggard & Tammy Wynette "Today I Started lovin' You Ag
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 15 Oct 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Today I Started lovin'You Again Merle Haggard & Tammy Wynette 1988 Wembley UK
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Tammy_Wynette_Today_I_Started_lovin'_You_Ag
Merle Haggard -- Are The Good Times Really Over
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Merle really tells it like it is. From 1983
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_-_Are_The_Good_Times_Really_Over
Merle Haggard - Working Man Blues
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:16
- Published: 25 Dec 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Working Man Blues - Merle Haggard It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife I been a workin' man dang near all my life I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use I'll drink my beer in a tavern, Sing a little bit of these working man blues I keep my nose on the grindstone, I work hard every day Might get a little tired on the weekend, after I draw my pay But I'll go back workin, come Monday morning I'm right back with the crew I'll drink a little beer that evening, Sing a little bit of these working man blues Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use I drink a little beer that evening Sing a little bit of these working man blues Sometimes I think about leaving, do a little bummin around I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town But I go back working I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes Yeah drink a little beer that evening, Cry a little bit of these working man blues Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use I drink a little beer that evening Sing a little bit of these working man blues Yeah drink a little beer that evening, Cry a little bit of these working man blues
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Working_Man_Blues
Merle Haggard Are the good times really over for good
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:06
- Published: 22 Mar 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Live in 2009
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Are_the_good_times_really_over_for_good
Merle Haggard doing impersonations (Marty, Hank Snow, Buck, Cash)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 26 Aug 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Merle doing his great impersonations on the Glen Campbell show.
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_doing_impersonations_Marty,_Hank_Snow,_Buck,_Cash
Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 04 Aug 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Stereo: www.youtube.com Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home (1967)
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Sing_Me_Back_Home
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson - Okie from Muskogee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 15 Nov 2011
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Merle recorded and released it in 1969. By November 15, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, where it remained for four weeks. [wikipedia]
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Willie_Nelson_Okie_from_Muskogee
Merle haggard ~ Tonight the bottle let me down
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 20 Jan 2009
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
I love Merle Haggard and most all of his songs..
http://wn.com/Merle_haggard_~_Tonight_the_bottle_let_me_down
Merle Haggard Misery And Gin
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 14 Jun 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Merle Haggard Misery And Gin The Perfect Country and western Song
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Misery_And_Gin
Merle Haggard - Running Kind / The Fugitive
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:49
- Published: 04 Jan 2010
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
The Anaheim Stadium Concert October 1980 In the band Roy Nichols guitar Norman Hamlet steelguitar Don Markham saxophone Mark Yeary piano Gordon Terry fiddle Dennis Hromek bass Biff Adams drums Tiny Moore fiddle and mandolin Ronnie Reno guitar Bonnie Owens and Ronnie Reno background vocal
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Running_Kind_The_Fugitive
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard - Pancho and Lefty
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:33
- Published: 29 Apr 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Clip From PBS Tv - And Support Your Local PBS station www.willienelson.com As He is Out On The Road Again 2008 Help Willie Pay Off The IRS!! I'm gettin a ticket, how 'bout you
http://wn.com/Willie_Nelson_and_Merle_Haggard_Pancho_and_Lefty
Merle Haggard turns 75, talks God and politics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:42
- Published: 06 Apr 2012
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Merle Haggard turns 75! The music legend talks God, politics, marriage and false teeth in a rare interview with CNN.
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_turns_75,_talks_God_and_politics
The Fightin' Side of Me
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 22 May 2007
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Montage set to "The Fightin' Side of Me" by Merle Haggard.
http://wn.com/The_Fightin'_Side_of_Me
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried (1968 live TV performance)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:19
- Published: 12 Nov 2008
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
From the Merle Haggard DVD Legendary Performances: Merle Haggard. Available at www.shoutfactorystore.com
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Mama_Tried_1968_live_TV_performance
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard...Pancho and Lefty
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:44
- Published: 15 Aug 2007
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
A great video if you like a song that tells a story
http://wn.com/Willie_Nelson_and_Merle_HaggardPancho_and_Lefty
Merle Haggard - That's the Way Love Goes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 06 May 2012
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Merle Haggard ~ Hobo's Meditation
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 26 May 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Merle Haggard-If We Make It Through December
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 21 Feb 2009
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
1974
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard-If_We_Make_It_Through_December
Merle Haggard - Today I Started Loving You Again
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 03 May 2008
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Merle Haggard & the Strangers from 1997.
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard_Today_I_Started_Loving_You_Again
Merle Haggard, Days of wine and roses.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Creative Commons / Fogbank
AP/Rick Bowmer
Photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison
09 Oct 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Facing Alexander the Great on the plains of Gaugamela, King Darius III was overly confident in his new and secretive weapon. Along with selecting and...
Photo: DOD / Public Domain
07 Oct 2012
America's longest war entered its 12th year Sunday, with the anniversary marked by a Taliban statement claiming that NATO forces are "fleeing Afghanistan" in "humiliation and disgrace". The US led the...
Photo: AP / SANA
09 Oct 2012
DAMASCUS - Twin blasts at a military base near Damascus by suicide bombers, one driving a bomb-laden ambulance, killed dozens of people while the fate of prisoners held there is unknown, a watchdog...
Photo: AP / Mexico's Attorney General's Office, file
09 Oct 2012
Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, has apparently been killed in a firefight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, the Mexican navy has said. The navy said there...
Photo: AP / Al Jacinto
07 Oct 2012
Manila: The Philippine government and Muslim rebels have agreed a peace deal for the country's troubled south, President Benigno Aquino announced on Sunday, signalling an end to a 40-year conflict...
Review | Merle Haggard
31 Aug 2012
Kansas City Star
Mark Humphrey Merle Haggard, who performed earlier this year at Nashville's All for the Hall benefit, showed a Thursday night crowd at Knuckleheads how it's done. This was about as perfect as a night of music could get. I suppose if you were one of the 1,000 people whose seat was in the blocked-off...(size: 3.1Kb)
Still plenty of fight left in Merle Haggard
29 Aug 2012
Kansas City Star
Dave Martin Merle Haggard Thursday Merle Haggardâs show at Knuckleheads is officially sold out. For more information, go to KnuckleheadsKC.com. âIâm living proof that things go wrong in America, and Iâm also living proof that things can go right,â Merle Haggard proclaimed in the 2010 PBS...(size: 6.8Kb)
The Examiner
Related topics merle haggardCountry Music Advertisement The Fox Theatre of Visalia wishes to notify all fans of Country music legend Merle Haggard that his previously cancelled show has now been re-scheduled for Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm. at The Fox Theatre in Visalia, California. The...(size: 21.3Kb)
Sacramento Bee
ATLANTA - "I'm living proof that things go wrong in America, and I'm also living proof that things can go right," Merle Haggard proclaimed in the 2010 PBS "American Masters" documentary "Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself." The film took the outlaw country legend on a trip back to his...(size: 3.2Kb)
Merle Haggard is one of us -- that's his beauty
02 Aug 2012
Chicago Tribune
Merle Haggard has always been an iconoclast and a contradiction. He is a hipster and a working-class hero, a restless traveler who sings yearningly of home, a deep romantic who rues love lost. He has survived poverty and prison and cancer. He has lived in boxcars and barrooms and mansions, and...(size: 2.7Kb)
Daily Press
In Portsmouth on Sunday night, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson gave music fans a taste of what country sounded like before arena-rock bombast and Jimmy Buffett-inspired excess invaded Nashville. Their show at nTelos Pavilion amphitheater was relaxed and low-key in a way that's a far cry from...(size: 2.3Kb)
Daily Press
Two of country music's greatest gunslingers will soon amble on stage in Portsmouth where they'll share tall tales, heartaches and gritty stories of survival. Merle Haggard, 75, and Kris Kristofferson, 76, are true compadres — two artful songwriters who have weathered many a storm and lived to...(size: 9.1Kb)
Atlanta Journal
"I'm living proof that things go wrong in America and I'm also living proof that things can go right," Merle Haggard proclaimed in the 2010 PBS "American Masters" documentary "Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself." Today on accessAtlanta Fun: Today's Find Five, Sudoku, Games 50 things to do...(size: 3.7Kb)
Star Tribune
Wednesday: It's a day of dynamite doubleheaders: two country-music icons and two Americana heroes. Haggard and Kristofferson (above) have enough classics between them to fill...(size: 1.2Kb)
The Examiner
Merle Haggard, one of the original “outlaws” of country music is a living legend. At age 75, he is still making great music that is undeniably American, all together country and a little—well a lot—rock-n-roll rebel. He will bring his live show to Phoenix Sept. 10 when he performs at the intimate...(size: 5.6Kb)
| Merle Haggard | |
|---|---|
 Haggard at the White House for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors |
|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Merle Ronald Haggard |
| Also known as | The Hag |
| Born | (1937-04-06) April 6, 1937 (age 75) Oildale, California, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Songwriter, musician, guitarist and singer |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Labels | Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI, Vanguard |
| Website | merlehaggard.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Merle Haggard Signature Model Telecaster | |
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.
By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. In 1997, Merle Haggard was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Merle Haggard was born in Oildale, California, in 1937. His parents, James Francis and Flossie Mae (née Harp) Haggard,[1] moved from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. At that time, much of the population of Bakersfield consisted of migrant workers from Oklahoma and surrounding states. Haggard spent his childhood in Oildale, a hardscrabble suburb of Bakersfield home to many workers in the adjacent Kern River Oil Field. His maternal grandmother, Martha Arizona Belle "Zona" Villines Harp (1881-1971), is the subject of his 1972 hit "Grandma Harp."
Haggard's father died when Merle was nine years old. He soon began committing petty crimes and truancy. Due to shoplifting in 1950 (aged thirteen), Merle was sent to a juvenile detention center.[2] In 1951, aged 14, Haggard ran away to Texas with a friend, but returned that same year and was arrested for truancy and petty larceny. Again escaping the juvenile detention center, he went to Modesto, California. He worked odd jobs—legal and not—and began performing in a bar. Once he was found again, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, a high-security installation. He was released fifteen months later, but was sent back after beating a local boy during a burglary attempt. After his fourth release, Haggard saw Lefty Frizzell in concert with his friend, Bob Teague. After hearing Haggard sing along to his first two songs Frizzell allowed Haggard to sing at the concert. The audience enjoyed Haggard and he began working on a full-time music career. After he had earned a local reputation, Haggard's money problems caught up with him. He was arrested for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957[3] and was sent to the San Quentin state prison for three years.
While in prison, Haggard ran a gambling and brewing racket from his cell. During a time of solitary confinement, he encountered an alcoholic mathematician and death row inmate, Drunk Adam. Haggard had the opportunity to escape with a fellow inmate (nicknamed "Rabbit") but passed. The inmate successfully escaped, only to shoot a police officer and return to San Quentin for execution. Drunk Adam's predicament along with that of "Rabbit" inspired Haggard to turn his life around. Haggard soon earned a high-school equivalence diploma, kept a steady job in the prison's textile plant, and played in the prison's band. Upon his release in 1960, Haggard said it took about four months to get used to being out of the penitentiary and that, at times, he actually wanted to go back in. He said it was the loneliest he had ever felt.[citation needed]
Country success[link]
Upon his release, Haggard started digging ditches and wiring houses for his brother. Soon he was performing again, and later began recording with Tally Records. The Bakersfield Sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the over-produced honky tonk of the Nashville Sound. Haggard's first song was "Skid Row". In 1962, Haggard wound up performing at a Wynn Stewart show in Las Vegas and heard Wynn's "Sing a Sad Song". He asked for permission to record it, and the resulting single was a national hit in 1964. The following year he had his first national top ten record with "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", written by Liz Anderson (mother of country singer Lynn Anderson) and his career was off and running. 1966 saw his first number one song "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive", also written by Liz Anderson, which Haggard acknowledges in his autobiography remains his most popular number with audiences.
In 1968, Haggard's first tribute LP Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to acclaim. "Okie From Muskogee", 1969's apparent political statement, was actually written as an abjectly humorous character portrait. Haggard called the song a "documentation of the uneducated that lived in America at the time."[4] He said later on the Bob Edwards Show that "I wrote it when I recently got out of the joint. I knew what it was like to lose my freedom, and I was getting really mad at these protesters. They didn't know anything more about the war in Vietnam than I did. I thought how my dad, who was from Oklahoma, would have felt. I felt I knew how those boys fighting in Vietnam felt."
Later, Alabama Gov. George Wallace asked Haggard for an endorsement, which Haggard declined. However, Haggard has expressed sympathy with the "parochial" way of life expressed in "Okie" and songs such as "The Fightin' Side of Me". After "Okie" was released, it was a hit.
Regardless of exactly how they were intended, "Okie From Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", and "I Wonder If They Think of Me" were hailed as anthems of the so-called "Silent Majority" and presaged a trend in patriotic songs that would reappear years later with Charlie Daniels' "In America", Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA", and others. In 1969 the Grateful Dead began performing Haggard's tune "Mama Tried", which appeared on their 1971 eponymous live album. The song became a staple in their repertoire until the band's end in 1995. The Grateful Dead also performed Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home" numerous times between 1971 and 1973. In addition, the Flying Burrito Brothers recorded and performed "White Line Fever" in 1971, and toured with "Sing Me Back Home" and "Hungry Eyes". Singer-activist Joan Baez, whose political leanings couldn't be more different from those expressed in Haggard's above-referenced songs, nonetheless covered "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried" in 1969. The Everly Brothers also used both songs in their 1968 country-rock album Roots. Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills), which helped spark a permanent revival and expanded audience for western swing.
On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, shortly after "Carolyn" became another number one country hit for Haggard, then-California governor Ronald Reagan granted Haggard a full pardon for his past crimes.
During the early to mid 1970s, Haggard's chart domination continued with songs like "Someday We'll Look Back", "Carolyn", "Grandma Harp", "Always Wanting You", and "The Roots of My Raising". He also wrote and performed the theme song to the television series Movin' On, which in 1975 gave him another number one country hit. The 1973 recession anthem "If We Make It Through December" furthered Haggard's status as a champion of the working class. Haggard appeared on the cover of TIME on May 6, 1974.
In 1981, Haggard published an autobiography, Sing Me Back Home. That same year, he alternately spoke and sang the ballad The Man In the Mask. Written by Dean Pitchford (whose other output includes Fame, Footloose, Sing, Solid Gold and the musical Carrie), this was the combined narration/theme from the movie The Legend of the Lone Ranger...which was a box-office flop.
Country star Willie Nelson believed the 1983 Academy Award-winning film Tender Mercies, about the life of fictional singer Mac Sledge, was based on the life of Merle Haggard. Actor Robert Duvall and other filmmakers denied this and claimed the character was based on nobody in particular. Duvall, however, said he was a big fan of Haggard.[5]
"If We Make It Through December" turned out to be Haggard's last pop hit. Although he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for 1984's new kind of honky tonk, newer singers had begun to take over country music, and singers like George Strait and Randy Travis had taken over the charts. Haggard's last number one hit was "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" from his smash album Chill Factor in 1988.[citation needed]
Influence[link]
Haggard's guitar playing and voice gives his country a hard-edged, blues-like style in many cuts. Although he has been outspoken in his dislike for modern country music, he has praised George Strait, Toby Keith and Alan Jackson. Keith has singled Haggard as a major influence on his career. The Youngbloods responded to "Okie from Muskogee" with "Hippie from Olema", in which, in one repetition of the chorus, they change the line "We still take in strangers if they're ragged" to "We still take in strangers if they're haggard". Nick Gravenites, of Big Brother and the Holding Company, paid Haggard a tongue-in-cheek tribute with the song, "I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle," later covered by other artists including Pure Prairie League. The Dixie Chicks paid tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song "Long Time Gone", which criticizes Nashville trends: "We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin’/But the music ain't got no soul/ Now they sound tired but they don’t sound Haggard," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein. Collin Raye paid him tribute with the song "My Kind Of Girl", when he sang "How 'bout some music/She said have you got any Merle/That's when I knew she was my kind of girl." In 2000, Jackson and Strait sang "Murder On Music Row," which criticizes mainstream country trends: "The Hag wouldn't have a chance on today's radio/Because they committed murder down on music row." In 2005, the country rock duo Brooks & Dunn sang "Just Another Neon Night" off their Hillbilly Deluxe album. In the song Ronnie Dunn said "He's got an Eastwood grin and a too early swagger/Hollerin' turn off that rap/And play me some Haggard". Brooks & Dunn also reference Haggard in 1993's "Rock My World (little country girl)" off their Hard Workin' Man Album as they sing "Acts like Madonna but she listens to Merle/Rock my world little country girl."
In 2005, Shooter Jennings mentioned him in the title track of his album Put the "O" Back in Country and later mentioned him in 2007 in his song "Concrete Cowboys." In 2006, Hank Williams III included Haggard as well as other country icons in the song "Country Heroes". Steve Goodman mentioned him, humorously but respectfully, in the song "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" (which he either co-wrote or didn't co-write with John Prine). George Jones recorded two albums with him. Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Railroad Song references Haggard, "Well I'm a ride this train Lord until I find out/What Jimmy Rodgers and the Hag was all about", Nuthin' Fancy Nuthin' Fancy.[citation needed]
In 2006, Haggard was back on the charts in a duet with Gretchen Wilson, "Politically Uncorrect".[6] He is also featured on "Pledge Allegiance to the Hag" on Eric Church's debut album.
Comeback[link]
In 2000, Haggard made a comeback of sorts, signing with the independent record label Anti and releasing the spare If I Could Only Fly to critical acclaim. He followed it in 2001 with Roots, vol. 1, a collection of Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, and Hank Thompson covers, along with three Haggard originals. The album, recorded in Haggard's living room with no overdubs, featured Haggard's longtime bandmates The Strangers as well as Frizzell's original lead guitarist, Norman Stephens. In December 2004, Haggard spoke at length on Larry King Live about his incarceration as a young man and said it was "hell" and "the scariest experience of my life".[citation needed]
Haggard's number one hit single "Mama Tried" is featured in the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris as well as in Bryan Bertino's "The Strangers" with Liv Tyler. In addition, his song "Swingin' Doors" can be heard in the 2004 film Crash and his 1981 hit "Big City" is heard in Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 film "Fargo" and in the 2008 Larry Bishop film "Hell Ride", executive produced by Quentin Tarantino.[citation needed]
In October 2005, Haggard released his album Chicago Wind to mostly positive reviews. The album contained an anti-Iraq war song titled "America First," in which he laments the nation's economy and faltering infrastructure, applauds its soldiers, and sings, "Let's get out of Iraq, and get back on track." This follows from his 2003 release "Haggard Like Never Before" in which he includes a song, "That's The News". Haggard released a bluegrass album, The Bluegrass Sessions, on October 2, 2007. In 2008, Haggard was going to perform at Riverfest in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the concert was canceled because he was ailing, and three other concerts were canceled as well; however, he was back on the road in June and successfully completed a tour that ended on October 19.[citation needed]
In April 2010, Haggard released a new album, I Am What I Am.[7] Released to strong reviews, Haggard performed the title song on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in February 2011.[citation needed]
Equipment[link]
Haggard has endorsed Fender guitars and has a Custom Artist signature model Telecaster. The guitar is a modified Telecaster Thinline with laminated top of figured maple, set neck with deep carved heel, birdseye maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets, ivoroid pickguard and binding, gold hardware, abalone Tuff Dog Tele peghead inlay, 2-Colour Sunburst finish and a pair of Fender Texas Special Tele single-coil pickups with custom-wired 4-way pickup switching. He also plays six string acoustic models. In 2001, C.F. Martin & Company introduced a limited edition Merle Haggard Signature Edition 000-28SMH acoustic guitar available with or without factory-installed electronics.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
Wives and children[link]
 |
This biographical section of an article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (March 2012) |
Haggard was married five times, first to Leona Hobbs from 1956 to 1964. They had four children: Dana, Marty (b. June 18, 1958), Kelli, Noel (b. Sept. 4, 1963). They divorced and in 1965 he married singer Bonnie Owens; they divorced in 1978. Haggard married a third time in 1978 to Leona Williams and they were divorced in 1983. In 1985 Haggard married Debbie Parret, but they divorced in 1991. He married his current wife, Theresa Ann Lane, on September 11, 1993. They have two children, Jenessa and Ben.
Health[link]
Haggard said he had started smoking marijuana when he was 41 years old. He admitted that in 1983 he bought "$2,000 (worth) of cocaine" and partied for five days afterward, when he says he finally realized his condition and quit for good.[8]
Haggard underwent angioplasty in 1995 to unblock clogged arteries. On November 9, 2008, it was announced that Haggard had been diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in May of that year and underwent surgery on November 3, during which part of his lung was removed.[9] Haggard returned home on November 8.[10] Less than two months after his cancer surgery, Haggard played two shows on January 2 and 3, 2009, in Bakersfield at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, and continues to tour and record.
Legacy[link]
On December 19, 2006, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a citizen-led resolution to rename a portion of 7th Standard Road in Oildale as Merle Haggard Drive, which will stretch from North Chester Avenue west to U.S. Route 99. The first street travelers will turn onto when they leave the new airport terminal will be Merle Haggard Drive.
In 2006, Haggard was honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards. During his songwriting career, Haggard has earned 48 BMI Country Awards, nine BMI Pop Awards, a BMI R&B Award, and 16 BMI "Million-Air" awards, all from a catalog of songs that adds up to over 25 million performances.[11]
Merle Haggard accepted the prestigious award for lifetime achievement and "outstanding contribution to American culture" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2010.[12] At a December 5, 2010 gala in Washington, D.C. he was honored with musical performances by Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Jamey Johnson, Kid Rock, Miranda Lambert and Brad Paisley. This tribute was featured on the December 28, 2010 CBS telecast of the Kennedy Center Honors.[13]
Discography[link]
Main article: Merle Haggard discography
38 number one hits[link]
- I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (1966)
- Branded Man (1967)
- Sing Me Back Home (1968)
- The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
- Mama Tried (1968)
- Hungry Eyes (1969)
- Workin' Man Blues (1969)
- Okie from Muskogee (1969)
- The Fightin' Side of Me (1970)
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) (1971)
- Carolyn (1971)
- Grandma Harp (1972)
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (1972)
- I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me (1972)
- Everybody's Had the Blues (1973)
- If We Make It Through December (1973)
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore (1974)
- Old Man from the Mountain (1974)
- Kentucky Gambler (1974)
- Always Wanting You (1975)
- Movin' On (1975)
- It's All in the Movies (1975)
- The Roots of My Raising (1975)
- Cherokee Maiden (1976)
- Bar Room Buddies (with Clint Eastwood) (1980)
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink (1980)
- My Favorite Memory (1981)
- Big City (1981)
- Yesterday's Wine (with George Jones) (1982)
- Going Where the Lonely Go (1982)
- You Take Me for Granted (1982)
- Pancho and Lefty (with Willie Nelson) (1983)
- That's the Way Love Goes (1983)
- Someday When Things Are Good (1984)
- Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room (1984)
- A Place to Fall Apart (with Janie Frickie) (1984)
- Natural High (1985)
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star (1987)
Awards[link]
- 1965 Top New Male Vocalist
- 1965 Top Vocal Duo with Bonnie Owens
- 1966 Top Male Vocalist
- 1967 Top Vocal Duo with Bonnie Owens
- 1969 Album of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1969 Single of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1969 Top Vocal Duo – with Bonnie Owens
- 1970 Entertainer of the Year
- 1970 Top Male Vocalist
- 1972 Top Male Vocalist
- 1974 Top Male Vocalist
- 1981 Top Male Vocalist
- 1982 Song of the Year – "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)"
- 1970 Album of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1970 Entertainer of the Year
- 1970 Male Vocalist of the Year
- 1970 Single of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1983 Vocal Duo of the Year – with Willie Nelson
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- 1984 Best Country Vocal Performance, Male – "That's The Way Love Goes"
- 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt & Dwight Yoakam for "Same Old Train"
- 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Award – "Mama Tried"
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Sources[link]
- Di Salvatore, Bryan. (1998). "Merle Haggard". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 222–24
- Di Salvatore, Bryan. "Ornery", The New Yorker, February 12, 1990, pp. 39–77
- Fox, Aaron A. "White Trash Alchemies of the Abject Sublime: Country as 'Bad' Music", in Christopher J. Washburne and Maiken Derno (eds.), Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, New York: Routledge, 2004 (ISBN 0-415-94366-3)
- Haggard, Merle, with Tom Carter. My House of Memories: For the Record. New York: HarperEntertainment, 1999
- Haggard, Merle, and Peggy Russell. Sing Me Back Home. New York: Times Books, 1981
References[link]
- ^ Ancestry of Merle Haggard
- ^ Haggard's 40 No. 1 Hits CD song book
- ^ Wallechinsky, David; Amy Wallace (2005). The New Book of Lists. Canongate. p. 301. ISBN 1-84195-719-4.
- ^ Phipps 2001
- ^ Robert Duvall (actor), Gary Hertz (director) (April 16, 2002). Miracles & Mercies (Documentary). West Hollywood, California: Blue Underground. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383509/. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ Duet with Gretchen Wilson
- ^ See, Elena. "First Listen: Merle Haggard, 'I Am What I Am'". www.npr.org. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125636724&sc=fb&cc=fp. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Heath, Chris (November 2005), "The Last Outlaw", Gentleman's Quarterly, http://www.gq.com/images/gq/asme/pdf/TheLastOutlaw.pdf, retrieved July 21, 2010
- ^ News of cancer diagnosis
- ^ GACTV.com – cancer diagnosis
- ^ "Top BMI Writers, Publishers Honored at 54th Annual Country Awards; Merle Haggard Saluted as BMI Icon". bmi.com. http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/335056. Retrieved September 30, 2010.
- ^ "Merle Haggard to Receive Kennedy Center Honor". http://www.theboot.com/2010/09/09/merle-haggard-kennedy-center-honor-2010/. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- ^ "Merle Haggard Featured in The Kennedy Center Honors on Tuesday". http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1654950/merle-haggard-featured-in-the-kennedy-center-honors-on-tuesday.jhtml. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
External links[link]
 |
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Merle Haggard |
- Official Site
- Photo timeline of his life from RollingStone.com
- Record Label
- at the Country Music Hall of Fame
- Merle Haggard at the Internet Movie Database
|
|||||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Haggard, Merle |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | April 6, 1937 |
| Place of birth | Oildale, California, US |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Merle_Haggard
Related pages:
http://ru.wn.com/Хаггард, Мерл
http://fr.wn.com/Merle Haggard
http://nl.wn.com/Merle Haggard
http://de.wn.com/Merle Haggard
http://it.wn.com/Merle Haggard
http://cs.wn.com/Merle Haggard
http://es.wn.com/Merle Haggard
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
