Merle Haggard Learns To Live With Himself

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“They handcuffed my ass and took me where they gas people,” Merle Haggard said as he looks back on the time he was in prison. He was in his early twenties and was

serving time in prison when guards of San Quentin found him drunk after he’d fallen into a latrine. This is a part of the many shattering stories that the country singer shared in Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself. It is a PBS documentary that features the life of the country singer. Said documentary will be shown as part of the network’s “American Masters” series.
The show takes a closer look at the life of Haggard centering on his growing-up years in Bakersfield, California, the death of his father, his life as a teenager who repeatedly escaped youth institutions and how he later made it to the top of the Country Song industry ladder.
“It’s about how this guy is trying to accept himself and deal with everything that happened to him in his life when he was young,” says director Gandulf Hennig. For the documentary, Hennig trailed after Haggard for three years. He integrated Haggard’s early performances in the documentary. The film also shows interviews with Kris Kristofferson, John Foggerty, Keith Richards and Robert Duvall. Merle Haggard is one of the great legends in the history of music. He has been one of the greatest singers of his time and now he is being wanted for some special tasks to be done fast. He was successful in countering the awful disease of lung cancer and now he is subjected to the “American Masters”. The media has made a huge and respectable documentary on his life starring him as a person who has struggled all his life to have the taste of success. The documentary made on the life of Merle Haggard is known as “Merle Haggard: Learning to live with myself”. This new documentary will be focusing on the life of Haggard as an artist who made all his efforts to reach at this position.
Now Merle Haggard is successful in becoming a legend in the history of music. Haggard used to present his voice at the local people at the train stations and inside the trains. He started his journey to become a super star and now he has made it to the top of the singer’s lists. Merle is an emotional song writer and all his hardships can be listened in his songs. He had spent his precious childhood years with difficulties due to the early death of his father and in the start of singing he had spent some of his years in San Quentin. He became a good singer due to his famous albums “Mama Tried” and “Okie from Muskogee”. The documentary of Haggard will become an inspiration for recent struggling artists.