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Night Beat Post 194 - Merle Haggard Part V: And so the story ends…

By late 1974, nine years into his career on Capitol Records, Merle Haggard had already released a tremendous amount of work, including Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album. The title was a bit of a cheat: It was, in fact, his twentieth stu...

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Night Beat Breaking News: Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings

I’m grateful that I was asked to write liner notes for the upcoming 39-CD set,

Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recording.

Night Beat is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, conside...

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Night Beat Post 193 - Merle Haggard Part IV: “I was dumb as a rock when I wrote ‘Okie From Muskogee’”

It would take Haggard years to own up that his songs were increasingly his own story. Before he could, he almost made that story worse. In the mid 1960s, he had returned to Bakersfield after a successful tour with Hank Snow, Waylon Jennings...

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Night Beat Post 192 - Merle Haggard Part III: Sing Me Back Home

San Quentin is a legendary and painful place. Opened in 1852, it is the oldest prison in California, and has the state’s only death row for males. It is a chilling place to visit, and terrifying to live in.

Merle Haggard arrived there in J...

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Night Beat Post 191 - Merle Haggard Part II: Sentenced

Merle Haggard wrote two autobiographies: Sing Me Back Home, from 1981, and My House of Memories, 1999. He spent more than half of each volume recounting his youthful offenses. The misadventures had a transfixing narrative line that he refer...

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