Merle Haggard, RIP
Merle Haggard died yesterday (see the NPR obituary here). In honor of his memory, a sampling of titles in our collection on country music:
- Merle Haggard: The Running Kind by David Cantwell
- Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary by Richard Carlin
- Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles by Bill Friskics-Warren and David Cantwell
- The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music by Paul Hemphill
- The Nashville Sound: Authenticity, Commercialization, and Country Music by Joli Jensen
- The Women of Country Music: a Reader Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson
- Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
- Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars Edited by Cecelia Tichi
And of course, Haggard’s two autobiographies:
- Sing Me Back Home: My Story by Merle Haggard ; with Peggy Russell (1981)
- Merle Haggard’s My House of Memories For the Record with Tom Carter (2002)