Merle Haggard
Subtitle: the running kind
By: David Cantwell
Edition: First edition.
Series: American music series; American music series (Austin, Tex.)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780292717718
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Country musicians; Biography
Notes: Includes discography (pages 275-279).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Silver wings" : Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001; title: "Hungry eyes," 1969; title: The roots of his raising; title: "Mama tried," 1968; title: Toward the bad he kept on turnin'; title: He loves them so : a playlist of early influences; title: "Leonard," 1981; title: The Bakersfield sound and fury; title: Someone told his story in a song; title: "I started loving you again," 1968; title: The legend of Bonnie and him; title: "Sing me back home," 1967; title: He's living in the good old days; title: He likes living right and being free; title: "Irma Jackson," 1969; title: His fightin' side; title: He'd rather be gone; title: "It's not love (but it's not bad)," 1972; title: He wishes he was Santa Claus; title: He takes a lot of pride in what he is (Hint: He's a white boy); title: "A working man can't get nowhere today," 1977; title: His country girl with hot pants on; title: He's always on a mountain when he falls; title: "Rainbow stew," 1981; title: He wishes a buck was still silver (not really) and likes the taste of yesterday's wine (really); title: "Kern River," 1985; title: He's going where the lonely go; title: "Me and crippled soldiers," 1990; title: The Hag versus the Man in Black; title: If he could only fly : Merle Haggard in the twenty-first century; title: Cuba, Missouri, July 15, 2010.