Recordings
July, 1972
Merle Haggard has come a pretty good way since the night he sat in an audience of convicts at San Quentin, where he was doing a stretch for burglary, and listened to Johnny Cash, envying his success and vowing to emulate it. Twenty-one albums later, Haggard ranks with Cash as one of the top country stars, and some of his songs, such as Mama Tried, are classics of the genre. But he is mostly known for Okie from Muskogee, an anthem for the patriotic right. Too bad, because the song is not one of h...
