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A Broad-Ranging Hardly Strictly Bluegrassnew
The Bay Area's best music festival returns.
  
    East Bay Express  |  
    Rachel Swan  |  
    09-29-2011  | 
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  Inauthenticity Antidotenew
Merle Haggard offers a much-needed dose of authenticity to this world full of hot air.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Jarret Keene  |  
    11-28-2007  | 
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  Country Means Never Having to Say You're Sorrynew
Why Merle Haggard can make a middling detour into bluegrass and still bounce back.
  
    Chicago Reader  |  
    Noah Berlatsky  |  
    10-22-2007  | 
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  Merle Haggard has Served His Time Making Musicnew
 
    
    Haggard turned 70 in April, but he hasn't slowed down a whit: Over the past year and a half he has released five albums of new music in addition to a flood of reissues.
  
    Baltimore City Paper  |  
    Geoffrey Himes  |  
    09-04-2007  | 
    Profiles & Interviews
  
  
  
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  Speaking for the Last of the Breednew
Merle Haggard teams with Willie Nelson and Ray Price.
  
    Shepherd Express  |  
    Alan Sculley  |  
    03-26-2007  | 
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  Jailbird Countrynew
Fans of country music, rejoice: 10 of Merle Haggard's early Capitol Records albums have been remastered and released.
  
    Style Weekly  |  
    Brent Baldwin  |  
    04-13-2006  | 
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