Country music legend Merle Haggard has died at the age of 79. Via CNN:
Merle
Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as "Okie
from Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me" made him a voice for the
workingman and the outsider, has died. He was 79.
Haggard
died Wednesday, his birthday, of complications from pneumonia at his
home in Northern California, his agent Lance Roberts told CNN.
Haggard
recorded more than three dozen No. 1 country hits in a musical career
that spanned six decades, from the 1960s into the 2010s. He overcame an
early life of petty crime and a prison term in San Quentin to develop a
rugged, outlaw image that helped sell millions of records.
Rest in Peace, Hag.
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