Merle Haggard: The First 20 Years
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Merle Haggard, along with Buck Owens, helped develop country's Bakersfield sound in the '60s. From there, the outspoken maverick became a forefather of the outlaw movement that took off in the '70s. There are country artists out there whose entire careers have been based on what Haggard did in the first few years of his.