Merle Haggard Doing Live Pay Per View Webcast From His Front Room Saturday, November 12 at 3pm (PT)/6pm 9(ET)

Merle Haggard Doing Live Pay Per View Webcast From His Front Room Saturday, November 12 at 3pm (PT)/6pm 9(ET)

An Hour of Song and Talk

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Merle Haggard has announced he and his band, The Strangers (Kevin Williams, Biff Adam, Scott Joss, Norm Hamlett, and Doug Colosio), will perform the first, of what he hopes is many, webcasts from his front room at his home in northern California. The webcast will be an hour long, containing live music -- new and old -- plus talking with guest Kenny Vernon.

According to Merle, "I'm paddlin' in unknown waters here. Trying to present a whole new idea for myself. This was totally my idea, so whatever happens -- blame me. All my life I've been a radio fan, listening to live shows when I was a kid and it's always been my dream to have a show of my own." He continues, "The live stuff will contain live versions of a couple of songs from my new album." ('Chicago Wind' has just been released by Capitol/Nashville.)

In the current issue of GQ, Chris Heath wrote nearly a 10-page feature which included: "Not all of his greatest songs dealt with trouble -- he has written with a majesty about love and dignity and gratitude and pride and standing up for what you believe in -- but trouble and heartache certainly felt like his most natural neighborhoods: how life is hard, how hearts break easier than they mend, and how it sometimes seems as though everything but loneliness will abandon you, of anger looking for its rightful home, of wanting to stay but knowing there's something just as deep within a certain kind of man that forever tugs him to leave."

You can catch this webcast from Merle's home this Saturday afternoon at 3pm (PT)/6pm (ET). Just log on at www.merlehaggard.com. The fee is $15.00.

Source: Merle Haggard

CONTACT: Tresa Redburn of Dept. 56, +1-818-702-6253, or fax,
+1-818-883-4941, tmumba@aol.com, for Merle Haggard

Web site: http://www.merlehaggard.com/

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