He was born a poor Okie boy, grew up in poverty in a boxcar in Bakersfield, California, then moved on to serve a prison sentence in San Quintin. Only then did he become the most popular country music singer-songwriter in the nation. It is the poor-boy-made-good, Merle Haggard, who gives us Sing Me Back Home - his beautiful, funny, searching and intensely honest autobiography.
"He was born a poor Okie boy, grew up in poverty in a boxcar in Bakersfield, California, then moved on to serve a prison sentence in San Quintin. Only then did he become the most popular country music singer-songwriter in the nation. It is the poor-boy-made-good, Merle Haggard, who gives us Sing Me Back Home - his beautiful, funny, searching and intensely honest autobiography."@en
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