Thoughts on Country Drinking Songs
Newsflash: Merle Haggard was good at it; kids today are not.
Not sure if it’s age or happenstance or maybe even a blessing that it’s taken me 51 years for the full genius of Merle Haggard to dawn on me. I’ve known and loved his main standards for decades now, though not so long nor as well as those of Jones, Nelson, Cash et. al., but somehow I am just getting down into the second couple dozen of his all-time clas…
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