Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

07/21/2010

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1hr 22min

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Music

,Documentary

STORY

Haggard actually lived the rambling, gambling, love ‘em and leave ‘em, often brutal life that remains the bedrock of country music lyrics – he hopped his first freight train at the age of 10, became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster. Serious criminal charges followed, including car theft. He was, literally, in the inmate audience in 1959, when Johnny Cash gave his New Year’s Day concert in San Quentin – and, as he’s said repeatedly, “my life changed forever.”

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Merle Haggard
  • Dave Alvin
  • Robert Duvall
  • Keith Richards
  • John Fogerty

    Director

  • Gandulf Hennig

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Thirteen
  • Eagle Rock Film & TV Productions
  • Eagle Rock Entertainment
  • Spothouse GmbH

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English