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A Cannabis Activists Tribute To Merle Haggard
Posted by Johnny Green at 7:15 AM on April 7, 2016
In a statement from his son, Ben Haggard said of his father, He loved everything about life and he loved that everyone of you gave him a chance with his music. He wasnt just a country singer, he was the best country singer that ever lived.
By Michael Bachara, Hemp News
Merle Haggard, the prolific singer-songwriter whose autobiographical outlaw songs and political anthems are loved across generations of fans, died April 6 surrounded by family at his home in Palo Cedro, California.
Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994, Haggard was instrumental in developing the Fender Stratocaster twang and rugged baritone voice of the Bakersfield Sound and recorded 38 No. 1 hits, including Im a Lonesome Fugitive, Mama Tried and Sing Me Back Home.
Haggard, although best known for his 1969 classic Okie From Muskogee which protested the counterculture of the time, had evolved his stance on the marijuana plant over the years.
At the time I wrote Okie From Muskogee, I didnt smoke, he explained in a 2011 interview with the Star Tribune. It was 68. I thought it was responsible for the flower children walking around with their mouths open. It was not so. But if a guy doesnt learn anything in 50 years, theres something wrong with him.
I was as dumb as a rock. I didnt know much about what I was talking about. But I knew more than the hippies knew. Weve come to terms with each other. Ive got a lot of hippies in my audience. And Im pretty much a hippie myself. A short-haired hippie.
As a young man Haggard attended three of Johnny Cashs concerts while locked up at San Quentin and detailed his years in and out of prison, his musical influences and his many musical successes in an NPR interview that originally aired on April 6, 1995.
http://n.pr/bzF7oe
Haggard was a well-known marijuana smoker who often smoked before going on stage to perform and said he stopped when medicinal marijuana became legal in California. Theres no way Im going to smoke somethin thats legal, so I quit, he said. But I think its like onions: You ought to be able to grow it if you want it.
I think its silly to put someone in jail for [marijuana possession]. I think its a threat to the pharmaceutical industry that you can go to the garden to grow something that might keep you from having to use Lipitor, Haggard proclaimed when the Bakersfield Californian newspaper, asked about his friend Willie Nelsons 2010 marijuana arrest.
In 2012 for Nelsons Heroes album, Nelson and Haggard recorded the opening track together titled A Horse Called Music.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Hc8cEplSQ[/ame]
Haggard and Nelson also recorded a duet album, Django and Jimmie, released in June of 2015, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 7 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart.
Haggard had been scheduled to join Nelson on tour for four shows in May, in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, as the two re-connected in 2015 doing a video for their tune Its All Going to Pot.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMDG5RvdXs"]https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMDG5RvdXs[/ame]
http://www.theweedblog.com/a-cannabis-activists-tribute-to-merle-haggard/
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjkJqHUYr5w[/ame]
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson collaborated on the album 'Highwayman'. After a second album, 'Highwayman 2', they embarked on a tour as Highwaymen. This
A Cannabis Activists Tribute To Merle Haggard
Posted by Johnny Green at 7:15 AM on April 7, 2016
In a statement from his son, Ben Haggard said of his father, He loved everything about life and he loved that everyone of you gave him a chance with his music. He wasnt just a country singer, he was the best country singer that ever lived.
By Michael Bachara, Hemp News
Merle Haggard, the prolific singer-songwriter whose autobiographical outlaw songs and political anthems are loved across generations of fans, died April 6 surrounded by family at his home in Palo Cedro, California.
Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994, Haggard was instrumental in developing the Fender Stratocaster twang and rugged baritone voice of the Bakersfield Sound and recorded 38 No. 1 hits, including Im a Lonesome Fugitive, Mama Tried and Sing Me Back Home.
Haggard, although best known for his 1969 classic Okie From Muskogee which protested the counterculture of the time, had evolved his stance on the marijuana plant over the years.
At the time I wrote Okie From Muskogee, I didnt smoke, he explained in a 2011 interview with the Star Tribune. It was 68. I thought it was responsible for the flower children walking around with their mouths open. It was not so. But if a guy doesnt learn anything in 50 years, theres something wrong with him.
I was as dumb as a rock. I didnt know much about what I was talking about. But I knew more than the hippies knew. Weve come to terms with each other. Ive got a lot of hippies in my audience. And Im pretty much a hippie myself. A short-haired hippie.
As a young man Haggard attended three of Johnny Cashs concerts while locked up at San Quentin and detailed his years in and out of prison, his musical influences and his many musical successes in an NPR interview that originally aired on April 6, 1995.
http://n.pr/bzF7oe
Haggard was a well-known marijuana smoker who often smoked before going on stage to perform and said he stopped when medicinal marijuana became legal in California. Theres no way Im going to smoke somethin thats legal, so I quit, he said. But I think its like onions: You ought to be able to grow it if you want it.
I think its silly to put someone in jail for [marijuana possession]. I think its a threat to the pharmaceutical industry that you can go to the garden to grow something that might keep you from having to use Lipitor, Haggard proclaimed when the Bakersfield Californian newspaper, asked about his friend Willie Nelsons 2010 marijuana arrest.
In 2012 for Nelsons Heroes album, Nelson and Haggard recorded the opening track together titled A Horse Called Music.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Hc8cEplSQ[/ame]
Haggard and Nelson also recorded a duet album, Django and Jimmie, released in June of 2015, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 7 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart.
Haggard had been scheduled to join Nelson on tour for four shows in May, in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, as the two re-connected in 2015 doing a video for their tune Its All Going to Pot.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMDG5RvdXs"]https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMDG5RvdXs[/ame]
http://www.theweedblog.com/a-cannabis-activists-tribute-to-merle-haggard/
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjkJqHUYr5w[/ame]
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson collaborated on the album 'Highwayman'. After a second album, 'Highwayman 2', they embarked on a tour as Highwaymen. This
