Merl Haggard [image: Inline image 2]
We saw Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson at the Wells Fargo Center, Santa Rosa, CA located at 50 Mark West Springs Road, on Apr 2, 2009. My daughter lives in Santa Rosa and is a big country music fan. He has played Austin on several occasions. Live in Austin,Texas October 30, 1985 http://youtu.be/GDPoQa1Ptt0 Live - Austin City Limits, 1978 http://youtu.be/UwHzkyPZHKg [image: Inline image 1] Merle Haggard Fender Signature Telecaster "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." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard 'The Encyclopedia of Country Music' by Paul Kingsburyand Vince Gill Oxford University Press, 1998 On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:48 PM, <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > One of my favourite country classics (bear in mind I'm British so American > country has an exotic element that would be lost on Yanks) is Merle > Haggard's Okie from Muskogee. First time I heard it I took it straight as > a conservative Yank protesting about the permissive hippie culture. The > second time I heard it I thought what an idiot I'd been - it was > *obviously* a satire taking the mickey out of straight-laced country fans. > Later I realised that what makes the song so appealing is precisely its > ambiguity. It isn't offering a neat resolution but leaves you understanding > that life isn't interested in accommodate our preconceived notions. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb41WPXYlQc > > >
