Haggard, poet of common man, is dead at 79

Merle Haggard composed the soundtrack of a generation of displaced Okies, Arkies and Texans — the rootlessness, the poverty, the field work — but he did it with such towering artistry that the Oildale native, the son of a railroad man and God-fearing mother, belonged not just to Bakersfield but the Path to Full Story on The Bakersfield Californian

Posted: Wednesday Apr-6-2016 10:30 AM

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