Condolences to the family of a great country singer, Merle Haggard. He will be greatly missed by the music industry and and his fans, but his voice will lingers on for many decades in the future. He was one of my favorite country singer of all time. RIP, Merle.

Merle Haggard was my introduction to country music when I first arrived in Canada, so many decades ago.  Johnny Cash was the other. 

Both men sang from personal hardship and experiences. One of his first song I heard in the late 1960s  was ' Sing me back Home'  and 'Legend of Bonnie and Clyde'. I believe 'Sing me back Home'  was a prison  experience of a man walking past his cell to death row.

I heard it on an old 1940 AM  tube radio, with a wooden cabinet about four feet high, that I still have, but no more AM stations where I live.

RIP Merle, your songs make lot of people think about their life. My regards to Johnny Cash when you see him.