“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Country Voices/Merle Haggard/Big City
Damn! Haggard truly is an institution.
RPT weighs in right after Deemer with another Haggard classic, writing "Country music that makes me want to drink cheap beer at the bar."
How true.
Question for all: The bigger genius? Dylan or Haggard? I call it a tie.
Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017.
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