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Prisoners Are the Best Audience: The Challenge of ‘At Folsom Prison’

by Jason Gross

[19.Nov.08] :. Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison wasn't a pivotal live album or country album or Cash album -- it was a piece of history unto itself, flaws and all.

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Countrypolitik: What’s Right and What’s Left About Country Music

by Bob Proehl

[20.Oct.08] :. At a first glance, country music seems traditionally allied with the sort of down-home, small-town ethics and values touted by the Republicans. But the politics of country music has never been a simple red or blue.

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Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings

by Matthew Fiander

[10.Jul.08] :. A personal history and a love letter, urging us to embrace country music as American music.

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Merle Haggard may have mellowed a bit, but continues to speak his mind

by Heather Svokos [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[28.Apr.08] :. It’s no use trying to pigeonhole an outlaw. Not when he’s Merle Haggard. Haggard is a rollickin’ renegade whose recent effort is a mellow bluegrass album; he’s a Ronald...

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Capsule Reviews

Merle Haggard: Hag’s Christmas

by Matthew Fiander

[21.Nov.07] :. Hag's Christmas may be light on Christmas cheer, but it sure is pretty in its holiday loneliness.

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Music DVD Review

Merle Haggard: In Concert 1983 [DVD]

by Dan MacIntosh

[26.Jun.07] :. A Merle Haggard show is one of the best concert dollar values today, just as it was in 1983. This DVD, however, is not.

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