Merle Haggard plays it his way
Rolling Stone gave Haggard's 2007 boxed set, "The Original Outlaw," a near-perfect rating, saying: "His songs are full of God's lonely men: crooks, fugitives, bar-brawling drunks, death-row convicts requesting one last song on their way to the electric chair. He doesn't sing as much about husbands -- no great country singer has ever had less interest in his own love life, mainly because his only true love is the road." Robb D. Cohen/robbsphotos.com
