Episode 271: The Merle Haggard Story (Pt 12)

Pioneers of Country Live!

The Merle Haggard Story (Pt 12) Pioneers of Country welcomes you to “The Merle Haggard Story” - a syndicated program originally broadcast in early 1985, including many interviews. PLAYLIST: Leonard My Favorite Memory Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016. Not long after Live 365 went out of business, so we never got to do a proper tribute broadcast. That is until now. During the COVID Pandemic of 2020 and 2021, I got the chance to travel to a place close to home – my attic! Up there I found a treasure trove of recordings that I had forgotten about. Among them was this several part syndicated broadcast titled “The Merle Haggard Story”. I thought it would be a great tribute to “The Hag” if we rebroadcast this part of Merle's beginnings, and continuing to his mid career popularity.