The Running Kind : : Listening to Merle Haggard / / David Cantwell.
2022 Belmont Award for the Best Book on Country Music, International Country Music Conference/Belmont University New and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than a hundred c...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | American Music Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. “Silver Wings”: Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001
- 1. “Hungry Eyes,” 1969
- 2. The Roots of His Raising
- 3. “Mama Tried,” 1968
- 4. Toward the Bad He Kept on Turnin’
- 5. He Loves Them So: A Playlist of Early Influences
- 6. “Leonard,” 1981
- 7. The Bakersfield Sound and Fury
- 8. Someone Told His Story in a Song
- 9. “I Started Loving You Again,” 1968
- 10. The Legend of Bonnie and Him
- 11. “Sing Me Back Home,” 1967
- 12. They Won’t Let His Secret Go Untold
- 13. He’s Living in the Good Old Days: Countrypolitan, Country Soul, Country Rock
- 14. “Workin’ Man Blues,” 1969
- 15. He Likes Living Right and Being Free
- 16. “Irma Jackson,” 1969
- 17. His Fightin’ Side
- 18. He’d Rather Be Gone
- 19. “It’s Not Love (But It’s Not Bad),” 1972
- 20. He Wishes He Was Santa Claus
- 21. Merle Loves Dolly
- 22. Songs He’ll Always Sing
- 23. He Takes a Lot of Pride in What He Is (Hint: He’s a White Boy)
- 24. “A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today,” 1977
- 25. His Country Girl with Hot Pants On
- 26. He’s Always on a Mountain When He Falls
- 27. “Rainbow Stew,” 1981
- 28. He Wishes a Buck Was Still Silver (Not Really) and Likes the Taste of Yesterday’s Wine (Really)
- 29. “Kern River,” 1985
- 30. He’s Going Where the Lonely Go
- 31. “Me and Crippled Soldiers,” 1990
- 32. The Hag versus the Man in Black
- 33. He’ll Never Be Gone? Merle Haggard in the Twenty- First Century
- 34. “If I Could Only Fly,” 2001
- Epilogue. Cuba, Missouri: July 15, 2010
- Selected Discography
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index