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Remembering A Country Legend: Merle Haggard On World Cafe

Remembering A Country Legend: Merle Haggard On World Cafe
The "Okie from Muskogee" talks life, music and songwriting in this 2003 interview. Haggard died Wednesday morning.
The world of country music has lost a man who has influenced practically every country artist making music today. The legendary Merle Haggard, born in 1937, died Wednesday morning on his 79th birthday.

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