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	Haggard (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haggard_(band) (162 words)

	CMT.com : Merle Haggard : Biography
		Haggard became one of the leading figures of the Bakersfield country scene in the '60s.
		Haggard was born to James and Flossie Haggard on April 6, 1937.
		Haggard's songwriting was beginning to blossom and audiences embraced his music, sending his "I Threw Away the Rose" to number three early in 1967, beginning a remarkable streak of 37 straight Top Ten hits, including 23 number one singles.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/haggard_merle/bio.jhtml (2678 words)

	pot smoker of the month - Merle Haggard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haggard always said the hoopla was overplayed, claiming he intended the song as a kind of jest.
		Haggard has been on the road for 38 years with his band, the Strangers, of which only three early members are left: Don Martin, horn, steel player and band leader, Norman Hamlett; and harmony singer, Bonnie Owens.
		Haggard remains an uncompromising artist whose work relies upon the honesty and purity of his vision, not the obligations of being a country star: "I don't like all of country music," he has said.
	www.cleartest.com /testinfo/merle_haggard.htm (1598 words)

	Haggard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew Charles Parker Haggard (1854-1923) Lt. Colonel, historian, novelist
		Hugh Alfred Vernon Haggard, Commander, son of Vernon, nephew of H. Rider [1]
		Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard, Sir, Vice Admiral (1874-1960), Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haggard (141 words)

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		Haggard was born poor, though not desperately so, in Depression-era Bakersfield to Jim and Flossie Haggard, migrants from Oklahoma.
		Haggard has won numerous CMA and ACM Awards including both organizations’ 1970 Entertainer of the Year awards, been nominated for scores of others, was elected to the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1977, and won Country Music Hall of Fame membership in 1994.
		Haggard’s retellings of the song’s intent are manifold and contradictory.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/merle_haggard.html (1066 words)

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		Well, Haggard and his band sped through 22 songs (all but a couple with Haggard vocals) they did not play a single Bob Wills number, and Haggard didn't play any violin, only a bit of guitar.
		Haggard band's was a standard set, his comments funny, if rather routine; the "we're not sick, just old" sort of thing.
		There was no encore; the band vamped through a repeated strain of "Stars and Stripes Forever" as Haggard wended his way through the backstage labrynth of corridors to his waiting bus.
	www.lostweekend.ws /elwoodreview.html (405 words)

	Salon.com People \| Merle Haggard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haggard was 9 when his father died, and his two much older siblings, Lowell and Lillian, were already living on their own.
		Haggard finally exhausted the patience of the juvenile system on a night in 1957 when, drunk on wine, he and a friend attempted to break into a restaurant that was still open for business.
		Haggard dramatized his reunion with the woman he loved in a song titled "My Ramona," in which a man returning from a long absence learns that his girlfriend or wife has become the town tramp.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2000/11/14/haggard/print.html (3691 words)

	Long-gone lonesome blues
		Haggard first saw Cash perform on New Year's Day 1958 in San Quentin Prison, where he was incarcerated on a burglary charge.
		Haggard and Nelson had their biggest success with Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty," which captured the 1983 Country Music Association's single of the year honors.
		Haggard allows himself to smile for a moment, for he has discovered a moment of spring on a cold autumn day.
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/sho-sunday-haggard12.html (1555 words)

	ANTI- Press - Merle Haggard
		Haggard has been known to be evasive with the press, but today he seems unfazed by the questions.
		Haggard dramatized his reunion with the woman he love din his song titled “My Ramona,” in which a man returning from a long absence learns that his girlfriend or wife has become the town tramp.
		Haggard has long referred to his music as “country jazz,” and is the only country musician to have appeared on the cover of Down Beat, the definitive jazz publication.
	www.anti.com /press.php?id=14&pid=370 (3414 words)

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		Haggard to show up and so blatantly ignore his audience is worse than not even showing up.
		Haggard happens to be a giant of American music, not just country, who can fall back on his own great material.
		Haggard is an outstanding songwriter and his sets are always great, but what should have been Merle's tribute to Bob turned into Merle's tribute to Merle.
	www.lostweekend.ws /jazzfestival.html (2426 words)

	Meet The Band
		All the members of the band grew up around country music, but they were interested in rock as well.
		In 1989, the band released "Thunder and Fire" with a new bassist and guitarist.
		Jeff left the band in January 1997, retiring from the road to be with his wife and away from the cruel vagaries of the music business.
	jasonandthescorchers.com /meet.html (1297 words)

	Haggard Middle School, Departments, Academics, Plano ISD, Plano, TX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The athletic period at Haggard is designed to help prepare students for a school sport and as a practice period for a player currently involved in a school sport.
		Haggard's honors speech and theater class is an advanced level opportunity for those students who have successfully completed beginning theater classes, participated in Plano speech tournaments, and, at times, have had outside community theater experiences.
		Haggard takes great pride in the number of students who have gone on to play in colleges and have chosen music teaching or performing as a career.
	k-12.pisd.edu /Schools/haggard/depart.htm (1850 words)

	Roy Nichols
		Because the band’s schedule often took them out of the state for weeks at a time, Fred had had to go to the local school superintendent and initiate a series of meticulous legal steps: He became not only Roy’s legal guardian but his officially sanctioned tutor as well.
		Haggard was one such devoted fan, but he came to admire Nichols as well after watching him play with Frizzell at the Rainbow Gardens in 1953.
		Between 1966 and 1987, Haggard and his band, driven instrumentally by the formidable combination of Nichols and Farmersville-bred steel guitarist Norm Hamlet, recorded 38 songs that reached No. 1 on the Billboard country charts and another 33 that reached the top 10.
	www.bakersfield.com /static/FP/baksound/roy.htm (1415 words)

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		And, in 1969, with an assist from then band member Eddie Burris, he ventured into the arena of social commentary, voicing his feelings in “Okie From Muskogee,” the song that was to have the most dramatic impact on his career.
		In 1977, Haggard signed with MCA Records and continued his long-term lease on the #1 position with a string of chart-topping singles, including “Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” and “Rainbow Stew.” A year after signing with MCA, his marriage with Bonnie was dissolved.
		It’s not the Haggard of old, of course, it’s an aged-in-the-wood Hag, seasoned by the perspectives of one who’s seen just about every path that life has to offer, and has lived to write about it.
	www.countrystars.com /legends/bios/haggard_m.html (1477 words)

	HWY61-L archives -- April 2005, week 3 (#106) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haggard has slyly backdated his music: from the swinging, twanging Bakersfield style of his 1960's and 70's hits to an invented old-time country that embraces fiddle tunes, western swing, yakety saxophone and pop standards along with drinking songs.
		His band is almost dainty in its well-oiled swing, as it dips into blues or New Orleans jazz, country waltzes or the Nat Cole hit "Unforgettable." Mr.
		Haggard's honey-cured voice has been a model for country singers from George Strait to Alan Jackson, with nonchalant timing and sudden dips into his baritone register.
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0504C&L=hwy61-l&P=R4531&I=-3 (422 words)

	Merle Haggard \| Unforgettable
		Haggard is not, of course, the first country artist to make this leap into standards.
		Haggard is not stretching any envelopes, but this recording is filled with low-key piano-driven arrangements suited for a late-night smoky bar.
		Haggard's smooth and effortless voice, uncomplicated phrasing, and warm timbre give the lyrics a clear-headed beauty that is the hallmark of a performer with few pretensions.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=16291 (392 words)

	www.merlehaggard.com/
		Capitol Records Nashville and Haggard, one of the most influential performers in the history of the genre, honored this reunion with a private in-studio performance by Haggard and his band at the historic Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA.
		Haggard's backup musicians sound as if they've been waiting their whole lives to get at material like this; the pianists seem like they cut their teeth in cabarets instead of saloons.
		Haggard is more of a big-band singer, and he envelops the song in a big context, where Nelson delivers it as a more intimate, more personal refrain.
	www.merlehaggard.com /latest-news.html (8197 words)

	Chico News and Review - Music - February 17, 2005
		A band like Haggard's is an American throwback, reminiscent of when a good work ethic made for a relaxed work environment.
		Haggard can be a cut-up at times, as when he did a pretty good imitation of Buck Owens on a snippet of a song.
		Haggard's cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was no imitation, though, just a great version of a classic.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2005-02-17/music.asp (670 words)

	CMT.com: News
		After a few minutes of rehearsal with his longtime band, the Strangers, he asked the musicians to play a little softer because they were working in a small room.
		Haggard and his band recently previewed the new album for an invitation-only crowd that filled the former studios where he first recorded 40 years ago.
		I'm Merle Haggard, and part of the reason those people pay the ticket price to come and see me, I think, is there's a possibility they'll hear a new song.
	www.cmt.com /news/articles/1496369/20050128/haggard_merle.jhtml?headlines=true (2722 words)

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		Haggard just doesn't give a damn about the hustle and hype, and, since being released from his contract with Curb Records in 1996, has been between tours that tend to favor outlying sub-suburban venues, steadily recording and writing -- stacking up, by his count, a total of some 130 unreleased tracks.
		Haggard's voice flows with understated, hypnotic style, drawing as much from precise doses of theatrical emotion as it does from breath control and intonation, the set of the jaw and the distance between mouth and microphone.
		Haggard is an odd one, with his own unique sense of logic; once, a pair of young pickers recounted the troubles amphetamines had caused them, telling Haggard they were quitting for good.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=9177 (3837 words)

	The Band
		It was Sahm who urged Tomblin to form a band and go back onstage, which he did, opening for Sahm's Last Real Texas Blues Band tour of California.
		She played in an acoustic quartet with Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band and then spent five years touring with blues stylist Leon Redbone, during which time she started playing the non-pedal steel guitar.
		Haggard said, “I usually listen to the guys in the band.
	www.luckytomblinband.com /band.html (1141 words)

	Merle Haggard Greatest Hits Finest Performances (New Recordings) 1995
		Because it was recorded at Haggard's home studio in 1995 with his stage band providing backing, the record sounds a lot like a board recording of a '95 Merle Haggard concert.
		The sound is simple but clean, the band plays with the confidence of a group that has played the material hundreds of time, and Haggard, as always, sings superbly.
		Haggard's band sticks pretty close to the arrangements of the original records, but Haggard takes some liberties with the melodies, playfully dropping down an octave or back-phrasing on occasion.
	www.angelfire.com /stars4/anxietyfriend/073_Finest.html (379 words)

	A Haggard legend - Entertainment
		When Haggard's father died of a brain tumor, his mother was left alone in humble circumstances to care for her nine-year-old son.
		A botched robbery at age 21 resulted in a three-year stretch at San Quentin Penitentiary and caused Haggard to reflect on the direction his life was headed.
		Recording his own songs on the small Tally label, Haggard hit the big time in 1965 with his song, "(All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers." Re-released by Capitol Records, the tune became Haggard's first top-10 single and launched one of country music's most enduring and successful careers.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2002/04/16/Entertainment/A.Haggard.Legend-502309.shtml (515 words)

	Haggard: The Movie (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haggard the Movie was touted as a spin off come feature film from the Jackass boys.
		Far from it, the movie dives shamelessly into camera hogging tom foolery which is only funny to the boys making the film.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Haggard: The Movie (2003)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0298656 (452 words)

	Music - May 15, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The band’s live performances are an organized train wreck, with singer and guitarist Billy Haggard egging on the crowd like a preacher in an old-time tent revival show.
		Instead of pressing more copies, the band accepted an invitation from Sacramento producer Pat Olguin (Black Eyed Peas, Papa Roach and Deftones) to re-record the CD at his Velvet Tone Studio.
		“If this goes in there,” Haggard answered, “then maybe some kid is going to read this thing and is going to understand that music is more important than drugs, because it is. We’d play gigs where they’d pay you half in money and half in blow.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2003-05-15/Music.asp (782 words)

	Amazon.com: A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World: Or, My Salute To Bob Wills: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haggard, always a risk taker, lost his father way too soon, ended up riding the rails, `hoboing' across the US with a Railroad Workers pass in his pocket because of his father's trade.
		Haggard stood his ground, self produced the recordings, while Capitol assigned Earl Ball interim `producer'; he made sure there was tape on the Ampex recorders.
		Haggard relit the torch, passed it on to these upstarts and the results speak for themselves.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001SLO?v=glance (2089 words)

	GetOut Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 67-year-old Haggard graced the classy confines of the Dodge Theatre Friday to play his second Valley stop in support of his fantastic 2003 release “Like Never Before.” He played to about 900 people at the Marquee Theatre in February.
		Supported by his group, collectively known as The Strangers (whom Haggard jokingly introduced as “the world's oldest beer joint band“), Haggard has put together perhaps his finest backing band ever for this tour.
		Long underrated as a guitarist, Haggard, the only country musician ever to be featured on the cover of venerable jazz publication Downbeat, played a mixture of the pure country leads with jazz swing overtones that have been a staple of his finest work for decades.
	www.getoutaz.com /music/merle0703.shtml (361 words)

	THE METAL OBSERVER - Review - HAGGARD - Eppur Si Muove
		Now there is a lot of bands, which incorporate medieval and classical instruments into their sound, but only very rarely they play such an important role as with HAGGARD, because just as rarely we get such a homogenous sound as with this, ehm, seventeen-tet?
		But seriously, befitting the epoch of Galileo, we also get a whole bunch of baroque influences and melodies, which homogenously are amalgamated with the electric guitars and Metal.
		On we go, “The Observer”, introduced by violin and cembalo, is more rooted in Death Metal, as the sluggish and very heavy song really steps on the pedal in the middle and from all the classical instruments the violin is put into the foreground, before the title track gives me the rest.
	www.metal-observer.com /articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=6661 (574 words)

	Biography and Discography - Steve Haggard
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	www.iband.com /music/h_bios/Steve_Haggard.html (311 words)

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