Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — He lived the kind of remarkable life that befits a character from a classic work of fiction — but the Merle Haggard story needs no fictional embellishment. His flawed, ...