Merle Haggard has always been an iconoclast and a contradiction. He is a hipster and a working-class hero, a restless traveler who sings yearningly of home, a deep romantic who rues love lost. He has survived poverty and prison and cancer. He has lived in boxcars and barrooms and mansions, and mostly he has lived on a tour bus, looking out at the America that he has chronicled so woundingly in song. He's a...
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