September 2, 1997: Merle Haggard Interview
Nov 22, 2023•3 hr 6 min•Season 1997Ep. 305
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Episode description
Art Bell sits down with country music legend Merle Haggard for a freewheeling conversation that ranges from Princess Diana's death to UFO sightings, prison reform, and the changing American landscape. Haggard recounts his troubled youth, from riding freight trains at age eleven to landing in San Quentin at nineteen, where a cell next to death row inmate Caryl Chessman sparked a life-changing moment of clarity that set him on the path to becoming one of country music's all-time bestselling… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-2-1997-merle-haggard-interview
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