Merle Haggard
- MatchMerle Haggard
- 100%George Jones
- 100%Waylon Jennings
- 81%Buck Owens
- 76%Hank Williams Jr.
- 72%David Allan Coe
- 71%Conway Twitty
- 67%Hank Williams
- 67%Johnny Paycheck
- 56%Tom T. Hall
- 55%Willie Nelson
Biography
6 April 1937, Bakersfield, California, USA. Like a razors edge, Merle Haggard sings is how John Stewart described his voice in Eighteen Wheels, and that razor has been honed by his rough and rowdy ways. In the 30s Haggards parents migrated from the Dustbowl to the land of milk and honey, California. Life, however, was almost as bleak there and Haggard himself was born in a converted boxcar. His father, who worked on the Santa Fe railway, died of... Read more