
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
Read an excerpt from the essay "Branded Man", originally published in 2003 by No Depression Magazine, about Merle Haggards music and the meaning we read into his songwriting.

Read an excerpt from the essay "Branded Man", originally published in 2003 by No Depression Magazine, about Merle Haggards music and the meaning we read into his songwriting.

Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz was born in New York on October 11, 1918 and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. Deprived of a college education by the Depression, he began his career as a dancer in the experimental troupe of Gluck Sandor. George Balanchine cast him in ...