Still plenty of fight left in Merle Haggard

Dave Martin Merle Haggard Thursday Merle Haggard’s show at Knuckleheads is officially sold out. For more information, go to KnuckleheadsKC.com. “I’m living proof that things go wrong in America, and I’m also living proof that things can go right,” Merle Haggard proclaimed in the 2010 PBS “American Masters” documentary “Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself.” The film took the outlaw country legend on a trip back to his hardscrabble roots around Bakersfield, Calif., where he was born in 1937 and where he got into the kind of trouble that landed him in San Quentin in 1958. Part of the proof that things can go right: Haggard was one of the inmates in the audience when...