BBC DocumentariesMerle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
Directed by Gandulf HennigTV-PG
2010 • E43 Jul 16, 2010 60mOne of the true originals of American country music, 73-year-old Californian-born Merle Haggard has always felt and expressed America's contradictions in his life and his songs. This is the journey of the former Nixon poster boy of Okie from Muskogee renown to the now outspoken critic of the Bush era, as director Gandulf Hennig explores one of the greatest songbooks in American music.
