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"Never one to pass up a chance to remind people he&amp;rsquo;s no longer the redneck of &amp;ldquo;Okie from Muskogee,&amp;rdquo; Merle Haggard these days peppers his concerts with references to smoking weed, jokes about wearing a bra and even occasional barbs about the mentality (or lack thereof) of the &amp;ldquo;all-American&amp;rdquo; towns he finds himself serenading. With his longtime associates the Strangers ably backing him up, his concerts are a journey through the history of country music itself, from the early hit &amp;ldquo;Mama Tried&amp;rdquo; to the 1970s barn-burner &amp;ldquo;Big City&amp;rdquo; to the tenderness of &amp;ldquo;If I Could Only Fly.&amp;rdquo; The Hag lives in quiet seclusion somewhere up near St. Helena, but when he&amp;rsquo;s on tour, glimmers of the hellraiser he once was still shine."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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