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Merle Haggard in Newsweek

June 26th 2006 in Country, News

Merle Haggard Newsweek features a pretty sweet interview with Merle Haggard. Hag talks about touring with Dylan and the Stones, the Dixie Chicks fracas and going back in the studio with George Jones for only the second time in 25 years.

an Excert: You had a duet out this year with Gretchen Wilson called “Politically Uncorrect.” The lyrics go, “Nothing wrong with the Bible, nothing wrong with the flag, nothing wrong with the working man.” That doesn’t seem to be particularly controversial or politically incorrect.
Yeah, but what is nowadays? Everybody’s twisted around. Freedom ain’t free no more. What America was and what America is is a totally absolutely different country.

It’s a different country now compared to when and what?
Fifty years ago there was as much freedom in San Quentin as there is in the streets of New York today, with obvious exceptions. You’re just as likely to have a police officer throw down on you with a .30-30 [rifle] in New York as you are in San Quentin.

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“Merle Haggard in Newsweek”
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KJ
wrote on June 27th, 2006

Good to see a country legend sticking up for The Chicks. Now if he would only stick a boot up Reba’s ass.


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baron
wrote on July 8th, 2006

Reba and Kieth played it safe. The Chicks did it outlaw style. Too bad thier rebellion resulted in a middling CD.




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