Wednesday, April 06, 2016

If I Could Only Fly

"In January 2015, he walked through, for the last time, the house where he grew up on Yosemite Drive, just yards from the railroad tracks that beckoned to him as a boy. A community group had begun a campaign to move and restore the home, a rail car converted by the singer’s father.
"'I grew up here with intentions of escaping,' Haggard said then."

Robert Price and Jennifer Self in The Bakersfield Californian report the death of Merle Haggard, the Late Adopter's favorite country singer.

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