Merle Haggard died .

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Merle Haggard died it, came out yesterday .
I guess no one else has any comment about him !

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Here is one of Merle's more oddball , um , " B-sides " (I don't know whether it ever literally was ~ I suppose it could've gotten some play in some bars , but...)
" I'm A White Boy "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYsp6fUyhaw

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Sad to see so many of the great old musicians passing away.

That's a pretty good song.

He died on his birthday! Right after I hit 29 two years back my dad was driving me to California (where he said Merle lived in some rural Northern Part) and I heard "Working Man's Blues". I loved the sound of those pick axes clinking to the beat. Now I don't know if my dad was right about him living in Northern Cali but damn I loved that "Working Man's Blues" song!