Merle Haggard Flies
j. poet, Stereotype, November 2000
MERLE HAGGARD IS The Okie From Muskogee, the Untamed Hawk, the Poet of the Working Man. He has a reputation for honestly speaking his mind, and this tendency carries over to interviews.
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