Interprète: Merle Haggard
Titre: Mama Tried
Année: 1968
Merle Ronald Haggard (né le aux États-Unis) est un chanteur, guitariste et compositeur de musique country.
Émergeant de la prison dans les années 1960, il participe avec Buck Owens et son groupe The Strangers à l'émergence du Bakersfield sound, caractérisé par les guitares vibrantes, les harmonies vocales serrées qui n'existaient pas dans le Nashville sound. Dans les années 1970, il participe à la montée du mouvement Outlaw Country, aux côtés de Mickey Newbury et Johnny Cash, entre autres.
Ses chansons ont pour thèmes l'amour, la perte, le regret et le rachat.
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country and Western song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster
and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new
vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge
not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.
By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country
movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the
1990s and into the 2000s. In 1994, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1997, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
