A song about his time in San Quentin prison, he was there when Johnny Cash came to do a concert and that was what got him into country music and, became one of the best singer/songwriters of all time. This song was his 3rd # 1 hit. The album's title track was inspired by an inmate Haggard knew there named Jimmy "Rabbit" Kendrick. As recounted in his 1981 autobiography Merle Haggard: Sing Me Back Home, Rabbit devised a brilliant escape and invited Haggard to join him, but they both agreed it would be best that he stay put. Rabbit was captured two weeks later and even… read more
A song about his time in San Quentin prison, he was there when Johnny Cash came to do a concert and that was what got him into country music and, bec… read more
A song about his time in San Quentin prison, he was there when Johnny Cash came to do a concert and that was what got him into country music and, became one of the best singer/songwriter… read more
Merle Haggard will forever be remembered as a true American treasure whose work often reflected his complicated life – his problems with the law, five marriages, six children and the complexities a life in the music business yielded. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994, they said about him: “Merle Haggard stands, with the arguable exception of Hank Williams, as the single most influential singer-songwriter in country music history.” Upon his death, The New York Times agreed: “In Mr. Haggard’s case the sound defined a body of work as indelibly as that of any country … read more
Merle Haggard will forever be remembered as a true American treasure whose work often reflected his complicated life – his problems with the law, five marriages, six children and the comple… read more
Merle Haggard will forever be remembered as a true American treasure whose work often reflected his complicated life – his problems with the law, five marriages, six children and the complexities a life in the music business yielded. I… read more