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...hardest thing about interviewing Merle Haggard," says Los Angeles Correspondent David DeVoss of this week's cover subject, "is finding him." Since Haggard is a compulsive fisherman, ever searching for the perfect lake or stream, DeVoss was sure he had caught his man when he heard that the country singer was at Orange Lake, Fla. DeVoss was about to pack his lures when he learned that Haggard, bitten by the gambling bug, was in Reno, but would meet him in Bakersfield, Calif., for an interview. Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called...
...right way turned out to be the country music he had known and sung since childhood. The ex-con who had spent seven of his first 23 years locked up went on to become Country Superstar Merle Haggard, who could mesmerize one crowd after another by singing...
Ballads like I've Done It All-tough, honest, "hurtin' songs" from the heart-helped Haggard, now 37, to live one of the classic success stories in the half-century history of country music. He started in the early 1960s as a $40-a-week sideman guitarist. Today he is the king of country who commands $15,000 a concert and in the past decade has sold more than 8 million LP albums and 3.5 million singles worth $44.5 million. The writer of his own words and music, he has won every honor and award that...
Boyle, thin and haggard at 72, some times relying on a wheelchair, betrayed little emotion as he was led out of the courtroom, head bowed. Said Sprague: "I felt right back from the beginning that it was Boyle. I knew that I would never get to the top in one snap. It was going to be a slow process. Had we lost any one of the previous cases leading up to Boyle, the chain would have been broken...
...band sharing the bill tonight: John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. These musicians are locals and they look it, but at the same time they play more faithful country music than you can hear anywhere, faithful to the Hank Williams and Bob Wills and Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson songs they perform. The only hint of deviation is the inexplicable New England flavor they give to their music, and in a Cambridge environment that's fitting. Vocalist Wright wrote a lot of their numbers, and they're often about Maine and Boston and the like, so that...