RIP the Hag

[DMC]

Merle Haggard is dead. RIP

[benefactor]

Listened to a lot of his stuff via my dad. Legend indeed. RIP

[UNT Eagles 2016]

a lot of deaths this year and we've barely completed 3 months wow

[Avante]

I was in Bakersfield a few days ago. We eat at a little home owned restaurant in Oildale (across the bridge). On the wall a picture of the owner with Merle, they played in the same band back in the day.

This is a sad day for country music, as we know he was right up there with Hank, Lefty, Willie, Waylon, Johnny and Patsy.

My fav Merle Haggard.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqSZSEHVqZA


R.I.P

[Wild Cobra]

Merle Haggard is dead. RIP

Shit, I didn't even think he was still alive!

[Avante]

Been on a country music kick since the death of Hag. A few gems, I highly recommend.

Wayward Stranger...Porter Wagoner
Brain Cloudy...Merle Haggard ....a great cover of the Bo Wills classic.
Always On My Mind...Willie Nelson
Poncho & Lefty...Willie & Hag....cover of the Towns Van Zandt gem.
Wilie, Waylon, Kristofferson and Cash...The Highwaymen
In the Pines...Bill Monroe.....Lead Belly would be proud.
House of the Rising Sun...Waylon Jennings,as good as it gets.
There Goes My Everything...Jack Greene
Almost Pursuaded...David Houston
End of the World...Skeeter Davis
Ode to Billy Joe.....Bobbie Gentry
Long Black Veil...Lefty Frizzell
Ramblin' Man...Hank Wiliams



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf0BGdmmtAI




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAL5etIiWEw


At 2:40, that is Townes Van Zandt who wrote the tune.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRacIzZSPo


One of my best friends is a guy named Roy, he used to play bass in a heavy metal band around here called The Whitman Sampler (yep, the candy) he was a huge Hag fan, and down below was his favorite. He took it pretty hard, actual lip quiver and misty eyed. You'd never guess he was a fan of a country singer.

[Avante]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7vLaAM8Ok