Merle Haggard has passed

TNHNDYMAN
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Another great gone this year....

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Music/2016/04/06/Manager-for-Merle-Haggard-says-the-country-legend-has-died-in-California-at-age-79.html
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    Sad.
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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,536
    Jeez! What the heck is going on!?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    Beat me to it... I'll be spinning up the Okie tonight when I get home. RIP Mr. Haggard.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    One of the greatest...very sad
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,023
    I knew he was in trouble when he kept having these recent bouts with pneumonia. Then he cancelled all his current concerts. I've seen him perform many times, once I saw him open five nights in a row for Bob Dylan in Chicago and he was having health problems back whenever that was probably ten years ago already. I have the upmost respect for the man. A real musician, Dylan recently wrote the song Workingman's Blues #2 as a gesture to Merle. Record companies didn't promote his newer stuff, some of his latest records are top notch. RIP Merle, they don't make 'em like you anymore.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    Died on his birthday. Sounds like a country song in the making. RIP Merle.
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    I will spin some Hag tonight and have at least a couple of drinks on his behalf.

    RIP Mr. Haggard
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  • pongshi
    pongshi Posts: 376
    When I was young, I hated country music, but now I have come to like some of the old school country stuff, but I don't care for the new pop they call country. Merle's stuff is some of the stuff that I have grown to appreciate. Rest in peace my friend.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    RIP Merle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsoHV6mg7r8
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    Merle Haggard lived the life written in his songs. The true soul of his music is timeless. I shall raise a glass in his honor. Rest easy, sir.
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    lightman1 wrote: »
    Merle Haggard lived the life written in his songs. The true soul of his music is timeless. I shall raise a glass in his honor. Rest easy, sir.

    Well said, I will join you in a toast or 12.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,330
    Glad I got to see him at least once in my life, Red Rocks back in 1990-91 great show...


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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    R.I.P. Mr Haggard a real country musician another loss. 2016 is not being easy on the artists we all grew up with.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    pongshi wrote: »
    When I was young, I hated country music, but now I have come to like some of the old school country stuff, but I don't care for the new pop they call country. Merle's stuff is some of the stuff that I have grown to appreciate. Rest in peace my friend.
    Excellent post pongshi, the old school country was real__ country. This stuff you hear nowadays with young guys in their skinny jeans singing songs about driving their four wheelers through the woods to the swimming hole and drinkin' beer is weak. I guess that's what the youngsters call "new country" whatever. Merle went back to a time when Western Swing was big, sad most young people today have zero idea what western swing was, some of the best dance music ever. R.I.P. Merle , we miss you!

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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    Glad you got to see him Larry, I wanted to see Merle at The Redneck Country Club back in 2012, but missed it. :(
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,646
    RIP. One of the greatest country artists ever.
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    I like Merle's and Willie's new collaboration.Two legends doing what they love.
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  • dromunds
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    Django and Jimmie, real good stuff. Another real good more recent one is the Chicago Wind from 2005. Aside, of course, from all his classic stuff.

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  • nooshinjohn
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    dromunds wrote: »
    Django and Jimmie, real good stuff. Another real good more recent one is the Chicago Wind from 2005. Aside, of course, from all his classic stuff.

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    In this picture... he looks like the world's most interesting man, though I think Merle would have preferred a good bourbon or single malt to Dos Ickies
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    Another "living legend" no longer with us. Rest easy Brother Merle.
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  • StevieB
    StevieB Posts: 256
    Saw him when 'back to the barrooms' was just out...what an awesome voice he had! :'(
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