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Merle Haggard : the running kind / David Cantwell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American music series (Austin, Tex.)Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 282 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0292717717 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 9780292717718 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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Contents:
Introduction : "Silver wings," Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001 -- "Hungry eyes," 1969 -- The roots of his raising -- "Mama tried," 1968 -- Toward the bad he kept on turnin' -- He loves them so : a playlist of early influences -- "Leonard," 1981 -- The Bakersfield sound and fury -- Someone told his story in a song -- "I started loving you again," 1968 -- The legend of Bonnie and him -- "Sing me back home," 1967 -- He's living in the good old days -- He likes living right and being free -- "Irma Jackson," 1969 -- His fightin' side -- He'd rather be gone -- "It's not love (but it's not bad)," 1972 -- He wishes he was Santa Claus -- He takes a lot of pride in what he is (hint: he's a white boy) -- "A working man can't get nowhere today," 1977 -- His country girl with hot pants on -- He's always on a mountain when he falls -- "Rainbow stew," 1981 -- He wishes a buck was still silver (not really) and likes the taste of yesterday's wine (really) -- "Kern River," 1985 -- He's going where the lonely go -- "Me and crippled soldiers," 1990 -- The hag versus the man in black -- If he could only fly : Merle Haggard in the twenty-first century -- Cuba, Missouri, July 15, 2010 -- Selected discography.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. He's charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight number ones. He's released dozens of studio albums and another half dozen or more live ones, performed upwards of ten thousand concerts, been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and seen his songs performed by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. In 2011 he was feted as a Kennedy Center Honoree. But until now, no one has taken an in-depth look at his career and body of work.

In Merle Haggard: The Running Kind , David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard's music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the entire breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music, which helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including songs such as "Okie from Muskogee," "Sing Me Back Home," "Mama Tried," "Working Man Blues," "Kern River," "White Line Fever," "Today I Started Loving You Again," and "If We Make It through December," among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions--most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed--that define not only Haggard's music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.

Includes bibliographical references and discography (pages 275-279).

Introduction : "Silver wings," Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001 -- "Hungry eyes," 1969 -- The roots of his raising -- "Mama tried," 1968 -- Toward the bad he kept on turnin' -- He loves them so : a playlist of early influences -- "Leonard," 1981 -- The Bakersfield sound and fury -- Someone told his story in a song -- "I started loving you again," 1968 -- The legend of Bonnie and him -- "Sing me back home," 1967 -- He's living in the good old days -- He likes living right and being free -- "Irma Jackson," 1969 -- His fightin' side -- He'd rather be gone -- "It's not love (but it's not bad)," 1972 -- He wishes he was Santa Claus -- He takes a lot of pride in what he is (hint: he's a white boy) -- "A working man can't get nowhere today," 1977 -- His country girl with hot pants on -- He's always on a mountain when he falls -- "Rainbow stew," 1981 -- He wishes a buck was still silver (not really) and likes the taste of yesterday's wine (really) -- "Kern River," 1985 -- He's going where the lonely go -- "Me and crippled soldiers," 1990 -- The hag versus the man in black -- If he could only fly : Merle Haggard in the twenty-first century -- Cuba, Missouri, July 15, 2010 -- Selected discography.

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