MERLE HAGGARD SPENT 3 YEARS IN SAN QUENTIN BEFORE HE EVER HELD A GUITAR ON STAGE. HE ENDED UP WITH 38 NUMBER ONE HITS. They told him an ex-convict had no place in country music. He walked out of prison at 23 and started writing songs that sounded like the truth nobody wanted to hear. He wrote "Irma Jackson" — a love song about a white man and a Black woman. Capitol Records buried it. They told him America wasn't ready. He recorded it anyway. They called "Okie From Muskogee" too political. Half t
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MERLE HAGGARD SPENT 3 YEARS IN SAN QUENTIN BEFORE HE EVER HELD A GUITAR ON STAGE. HE ENDED UP WITH 38 NUMBER ONE HITS. They told him an
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A MAN NAMED RABBIT KNOCKED ON HIS CELL AND ASKED HIM TO RUN — SAN QUENTIN, 1959. Merle Haggard was twenty-two. His wife had just written him to say she was carrying another man's child. Jimmy "Rabbit" Kendrick had a plan to break out in a packing crate. He invited Merle to come. Then Rabbit looked at the kid with the guitar and said something nobody else in that prison had ever said to him: "You can sing and write songs and play guitar real good. You can be somebody someday." Merle stayed. Rabbi
A MAN NAMED RABBIT KNOCKED ON HIS CELL AND ASKED HIM TO RUN — SAN QUENTIN, 1959. Merle Haggard was twenty-two. His wife had just written him to say she was carrying another man's child. Jimmy "Rabbit" Kendrick had a plan to break out in a packing crate. He invited Merle to come. Then Rabbit looked at the kid with the guitar and said something nobody else in that prison had ever said to him: "You can sing and write songs and play guitar real good. You can be somebody someday." Merle stayed. Rabbi
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A MAN NAMED RABBIT KNOCKED ON HIS CELL AND ASKED HIM TO RUN — SAN QUENTIN, 1959. Merle Haggard was twenty-two. His wife had just written him to say she was carrying another man's child. Jimmy "Rabbit" Kendrick had a plan to break out in a packing crate. He invited Merle to come. Then Rabbit looked at the kid with the guitar and said something nobody else in that prison had ever said to him: "You can sing and write songs and play guitar real good. You can be somebody someday." Merle stayed. Rabbi
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