Merle Haggard's My House of Memories

by Haggard, Merle; Carter, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780060193089
• ISBN10: 0060193085
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Free and Easy the Hag's road has never been. Losing his father at age nine, he led an out-of-control youth capped by a stretch in San Quentin preceded by his first of five marriages. Toughing his way through the ranks of country music (starting with the dives of Bakersfield's notorious "beer can hill"), he finally reached the #1 spot in 1966 with "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive." The Running Kind is named for one of his biggest hits. A period of great personal tribulation, the last two decades have also established Haggard's legendary status alongside such immortals as Willie Nelson and George Jones.

Author Biography

Merle Haggard has recorded forty-one number one hits. Tom Carter is a Nashville journalist who has collaborated on autobiographies of major country superstars.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
``The Party''	1	(10)
``The First Thing I Remember Knowin'...''	11	(6)
``I Was Born the Runnin' Kind''	17	(20)
``Down Every Road...''	37	(18)
``Mama's Prayers''	55	(12)
``It's Not Love, But It's Not Bad''	67	(14)
``Movin' On''	81	(12)
``A Workin' Man Can't Get Nowhere Today''	93	(14)
``Things Aren't Funny Anymore''	107	(14)
``I Turned Twenty-one in Prison Doing Life Without Parole...''	121	(14)
``Branded Man''	135	(14)
``Sing a Sad Song''	149	(16)
``Dealing with the Devil''	165	(16)
``From Now On, All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers''	181	(16)
``Always Wanting You''	197	(10)
``I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am''	207	(16)
``That's the Way Love Goes''	223	(16)
``Someday We'll Look Back''	239	(4)
``The Roots of My Raisin' ''	243	(12)
``My House of Memories''	255