A Portrait Of Merle Haggard
(GRAMMY winner Merle Haggard was honored with The Recording Academy's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award. The following tribute was featured in the 48th GRAMMY Awards program book. Haggard died April 6 at age 79).From the mid-1960s, in the midst of cultural upheaval, political turmoil, generational strife, and a collective chaos violently accented and darkly punctuated by the accompanying assassination of three of the most…
