Merle Haggard

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Merle Haggard, performing at the Ryman Auditorium in 2004 in Nashville, Tenn.

Music & Culture

Merle Haggard, Country's Outlaw With A Heartfelt Message

10:40am April 09, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon spent some time with the country legend aboard his tour bus in 2001. Simon remembers a man who'd come a long way since his imprisonment at San Quentin, where he did time for robbery.

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Music & Culture

Fresh Air Remembers Country Music Legend Merle Haggard

1:41pm April 08, 2016

"I was, to say the least, probably the most incorrigible child you can think of," Haggard told Fresh Air in 1995. The country icon died Wednesday morning in California. It was his 79th birthday.

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