MERLE HAGGARD
Workin Man Blues PAL 90 mins
Workin Man Blues - The TV Anthology 1968-2015 90m M DVD
Country Music Holiday, USA 1968 - Branded Man / The Bottle Let Me Down / Swingin Doors /
Billy Walker’s Country Carnival, USA 1968 - Mama Tried
From Nashville With Music, USA 1969 - Hungry Eyes
The Music Scene, USA 1969 - Okie From Muskogee
Hee Haw, USA 1969 - I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am / Today I Started Loving You Again /
The Johnny Cash Show, USA 1969 - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive / Blue Yodel / Sing Me Back Home ( With Johnny Cash ) /
The Johnny Cash Show, USA 1970 - New York City Blues / In The Jailhouse Now ( With Johnny Cash ) / Nobody Knows But Me / Walking On The Sidewalk Of Chicago /
The Porter Wagoner Show, USA 1970 - The Fightin Side Of Me
C. M. A. Awards, USA 1972 - Daddy Frank
Pop Goes The Country, USA 1974 - Workin Man Blues / Movin On /
Pop Goes The Country, USA 1975 - Movin On
The Porter Wagoner Show, USA 1977 - The Roots Of My Raising
Pop Goes The Country, USA 1977 - Ramblin Forever
C. M. A. Awards, USA 1983 - Thats The Way Love Goes
The Johnny Cash Christmas Show, USA 1983 - San Antonio Rose
Promo Video 2001 - If You’ve Got The Money I've Got The Time
Outlaws & Angels, USA 2004 - Pancho & Lefty ( With Willie Nelson & Toby Keith ) / Trouble In Mind ( With Willie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis & Keith Richard ) /
The Last Man Standing - Live 2006 - Bumming Around / Goodnight Irene ( With Jerry Lee Lewis ) /
Promo Video 2015 - It's All Going To Pot ( With Willie Nelson )
Promo Video 2015 - Alice In Hulaland ( With Willie Nelson )
Pop Goes The Country Performances PAL 66 mins
Pop Goes The Country Performances 1974-77 66m M DVD
30/11/74 - Workin' Man Blues / Had A Little Mule / Holding Things Together /
Medley: If We Make It Through December - Old Man From The Mountain - Everybody's Had The Blues - Okie From Muskogee / Mama Tried
18/11/75 - Movin' On / Cherokee Maiden / Fiddle Breakdown With Faded Love /
Roots Of My Raising
16/03/76 - It Makes No Difference Now / I'm Not That Good At Goodbye / Precious Memories /
11/10/77 - Ramblin' Fever / Medley: It's Not Love - All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers - I've Got A Yearning / / From Graceland To The Promised Land / Orange Blossom Special /
12/10/77 - Branded Man
1977 That Nashville Music - Ramblin' Fever / What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana / Dallas (With Leona Williams) / Sally Goodin / Workin' Man Blues /
Learning to Live with Myself PAL 83 mins
Learning to Live with Myself - BBC4 Documentary 16/07/10 83m M DVD
One of the true originals of American country music, 73-year-old Californian-born Merle Haggard has always felt and expressed America's contradictions in his life and his songs. This is the journey of the former Nixon poster boy of Okie from Muskogee renown to the now outspoken critic of the Bush era, as director Gandulf Hennig explores one of the greatest songbooks in American music.
Growing up in a suburb of Bakersfield, California, Haggard lost his father while aged just nine. He turned to a life of vagrancy and crime before seeing Johnny Cash while a San Quentin prison inmate in 1959 and rebuilding his life as a musician, picker and songwriter. Haggard went on to become one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music, writing songs from the perspective of the working man and the barstool, mixing prison songs like Sing Me Back Home with songs that reflected his confusion at a changing America, such as his biggest hit, 1969's Okie from Muskogee.
Hennig's film is the fruit of three years spent filming with Haggard on the road and at home, recounting the man they call Hag's life as a man and a musician while getting inside the soul of a person who has created his own unique blend of country, western swing, folk and blues.
Featuring extensive archive footage and interviews with Merle and his family, plus contributions from fellow musicians including Keith Richards, Robert Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams and Ray Price

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