I once asked Merle why he kept getting into trouble as a kid and he said, “I was interested in life, very inquisitive. It was his fifth stretch in jail the first came when he was 13, caught shoplifting from a ladies’ lingerie store. He really did turn 21 in prison, but he was “only” doing four years for armed robbery. No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried He was raised by his mother, Flossie Mae Harp, who became immortal when Merle wrote:Īnd I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole The Haggards lived in a converted box car, in the Oildale neighborhood, which was about as glamorous as it sounds. He was born Merle Ronald Haggard in Bakersfield, California, in 1937, the son of a railroad worker who migrated from Oklahoma (and I’m wondering if Woody Guthrie, riding hobo in the central valley during those dust bowl years, ever wandered through the Bakersfield yard and jammed with the guitar- and fiddle-playing James Francis Haggard). Both are giants, but there’s a significant difference between the two: Johnny sang in prisons Merle lived in them. Was there ever a country music singer with a better name, with a more perfect voice? Certainly, he’s ballpark in both categories with his old friend, Johnny Cash. He’s pushing the envelope, as he so often does, without even trying. This is, in fact, a peak Merle Haggard listening experience: down-home but dangerous, smooth as silk but lacerating, filled with love and longing, manliness and despair. This is Irma Jackson, written in the late 1960’s, at the height of the civil rights movement, the same vintage as Okie from Muskogee, but not released until years later because they wouldn’t let him. Then I don’t understand this crazy world we’re livin’ in It’s about a white man in love with a black woman: What on earth? Those lyrics: this is not your regulation country music song. The lyrics aren’t fancy, just brilliant simple, slicing right down to the truth the guitar is gritty, deep and driving. Michel Montecrossa is 21st century Cyberbeat poetry abundant with genius and most communicative expressiveness, satisfying every lover of forward looking, inspired and powerfully innovative poetry.You’re driving through the southern Illinois cornfields, shuffling your iPod-as I was, a few months ago-and that voice comes on, pure and effortless as a mountain stream, and your first reaction is a satisfied, goin’-home exhale even before your brain registers that it’s Merle. Michel Montecrossa in his Song Lyrics articulates the world in a new, exciting and deeply moving way, liberating from soulless abstractions, breaking through the insensible surface of conformity, reanimating bold creative insight, intense sensuality and thrilling wisdom. Through them he discloses the innumerable mind-shaking dynamic springs of consciousness expanding thought action that comes from the future. Michel Montecrossa Song Lyrics are poetry for the future. Michel Montecrossa ‘Song Lyrics #2’ in addition to 606 complete original song lyrics is presenting great Rock-Poetry and the comprehensive Discography of 317 Audio-CDs & CD-Plus and 10 Movie-DVDs on which the songs are released. ‘Song Lyrics #2’, released by Mirapuri-Verlag, presents 606 Michel Montecrossa Song Lyrics including rare German Epic Chants great Rock-Poetry-Images and Discography.
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