You can't go wrong with "the Hag".....would love to see your reaction to "fightin' side of me" I am glad to see your enjoying traditional country music, it's so fantastic

Merle was an inmate in San Quentin prison when Johnny Cash played there. He eventually got out and became a country music legend. He was great at impressions too. There's a video of him doing impressions of artists like Johnny Cash and Buck Owens, and then they bring Johnny and Buck Owens out to sing with him while he's doing the impression. Lol There's also a video of him doing an impression of Marty Robbins in front of Marty Robbins. It's great. Lol

@angelskunk2206

Жыл бұрын

Seeing Johnny Cash at San Quinton was the turning point for Merle. That’s when he decided to pursue music. I believe he later told that story at a concert that Cash attended. They became close, lifelong friends ❤ I love that story❤❤❤

Listen to it again and close your eyes and feel it...I just love it.

Merle Haggard wrote this song in the sixties. He was in prison back then and said this was a true story from his experience there. He was country music's all around best (singer, song writer, instrumentalist) ever. Miss ya man!!

The Hag! Epic voice, songwriter and guitarist!! There’s not enough room to type all the things about Merle. This whole concert is a must watch!!

💙💙💙🎼💙💙💙 More Country royalty .. mmm .. you are surprising me this morning. Merle is the king of all Country Music. This just happens to be my Mom's favorite Merle song. I have many , many favorites from this gent. I believe he is the best songwriter ... ever . Thanks for this one.

My favorite country music singer of all time. What a legend.

My favorite by Merle; right up there with "I'll Fly Away" the most recognizable prison song.🌹✨💖🙏🏻

Love anything Haggard does. Love his voice

Merle was the epitomy of song writing talent...So many great songs.

Merle was actually in prison. He was in San Quinton, so he has the experience.

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow!!! Thanks for the back story!!

Merle, speaks from experience as he was in prison, and this happened to a inmate as he was to meet his end, Merle Haggard, has lived more in his life then most of us ever will and has seen a lot. Merle, was a great entertainer and a great singer of a song and also a great writer, he will be missed in country music, this is what real country music sounds like these singer's of today needs this lesson!! Great reaction Thanks

Very cool reaction to an American Legend in country music .. Thanks Britt ..

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU!

Merle had the most beautiful, mournful voice. There are many more gorgeous songs for you to explore! I’m especially fond of “Kern River”!

Country music always tells a story. The songs you played today is real country to me. "The old timers." I feel like today's country singers ( the men especially ) sound so much alike. It's just not the same. -Vickie

"Mama Tried", "Hungry Eyes" and "Silver Wings" are three of his best. Merle wrote this after an experience he had while serving at San Quentin. RIP Merle.

@dillonthompson5776

Жыл бұрын

That is wrong. Everything he sings/wrote is my favorite

@mt3311

9 ай бұрын

@@dillonthompson5776 Sing me Back Home, was written after he witnessed the same thing while housed on death row. Hw was not there on a death sentence, he was just in solitary confinement, and death row was where the cells were located. He also talked with Caryl Chessman, the "Red Light Rapist."

Country music is the best kind of "story song" music you can find. I love all kinds of music from RAP to PUnk to Pop etc. I love Country music for the stories they tell.

This was my favorite Hag song. Virtually everything he recorded he wrote himself. His song writing is legendary in the country music world.

@richardhudson9291

Жыл бұрын

His wife wrote or collaborated on nearly all

That was a true song. An inmate was taking that last walk before his execution and ask Merle to play a song. Think I read that in Merle's book.

Merle has passed away but his oldest son sounds very much like him and does some of his fathers songs.

Two songs by Merle that are “musts” are Mama Tried & Are The Good Times Really Over? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Also, another fave of mine is My Favorite Memory. He also has a great collab with Willie Nelson-Poncho & Lefty ❤❤

I was never much of a Country Music fan, but I have always liked Merle Haggard.

I grew up on am country music,started my first band when I was 13 playing what is now classic country. 5 years later I was playing southern rock and touring festivals. By the time I was 20 I was touring with rock bands, opening for Uriah Heep, Def Leppard, Cheap trick, you get the picture. During that time I got married and walked away from playing as it did not afford the life as a husband and father that I envisioned. After all the kids were raised (6) I stepped back up to the mic and went back to my country roots.

Nice job young lady, Merle Haggard- Are The Good Times Really Over is very good also

I love this song. Merle tells a story that you belive. I can feel this song.

"Are the good times really over for good" is a nice one from Merle Haggard as well

About 2007 when I was a sophomore in Oklahoma, I had an English teacher named Mrs. Haggard. I coaxed my best friend into jokingly asking her if her dad's name was Merle.. She said no, but surprisingly her husband was related to him. Merle's parents lived in Oklahoma, before moving to California due to the great depression and the Dust Bowl. Hence his song "Okie from Muskogee". "Okie" was a term they socially used to refer to Oklahoman's that moved to California during that time.

The Hag is one of my fav country singer/song writer/musician. “Daddy Frank”, “If we make it thru December” are just 2 of the many great songs from Merle. You may want to take a deep dive into his life long work. He is/was an amazing talent. 😊

...Merle Haggard has a tribute to Elvis, that you should react to(after you have ingested MORE of Elvis....Merle's song: FROM GRACELAND to the PROMISED LAND...

Your wearing my favorite levi shirt, had it 12 yrs!

Merle is a local legend here in his north town of Bakersfield Ca you should listen to Kern River

One of the best voices in all of country music. Not bad for an ex-con.

Merle Haggard was the best to ever do it in my eyes, he doesn't have one bad song.

The poet of the common man.Haggard was one of the greatest. Top 5 of all time, to me

I love ALL his music. Daddy Frank The Guitar Man is very underrated. Such a good song

The band Merle is playing with is Asleep at the Wheel, an excellent Western Swing band. They are worthy in their own right.

I'm from a little (tiny) town in northern California called Burnt Ranch. I was raised on Merle and Buck. Thank you Britt :)

Merle made a mistake on the lyrics of the first verse. The correct verse is" The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom, I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest. I heard him ask the warden just before he reached my cell, could my guitar playing friend do my request". Merle was not the condemned man in the song but a friend of his being asked to play a last request for him. He wrote this song about an event like this that happened when he was an inmate at San Quentin.

While I grew up in the south, my family was never into country music (my mom loved the crooners) so I was never into it. But the man that would become my husband was a fan. While it was an adjustment, I can say I was always happy to hear Merle come on the radio. I encourage you to seek out performances from his younger years. He has a quality to his voice like no other.

Congrats on 164,000

Merles voice not what it used to be but his delivery, timing, emoting is still masterful. One of the best all time no dought.

If you want to see a great version of that watch the one live at Anaheim stadium. He’s in his prime

Merle wrote an interracial love song called “Irma Jackson” that his record label was worried would be a problem so they shelved it for years before finally releasing it. In some recordings Merle makes reference at the beginning to “not releasing it for one reason or another but now the time is right” but it was all the label. And the song is so good and sweet.

Merle is a legend

This is based on his personal experience while a prisoner and death row convicts he knew (I think planned to escape with) if I remember correctly.

Listen to Merle's "I'll just stay here and drink".....

@gracegalbraith6413

Жыл бұрын

One of my fav's is "If we make it through December"

I have two great story songs for you to try. George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today". This was his trade mark song. Another is "The Little Girl", by George Michael Montgomery.

You are amazing and yes you are beautiful thank you for checking out this amazing legend i love you

Loved your reaction . I love a good story . Don’t get anything like that in the latest songs . Keep up your good work You have great videos. Great understanding to music and songs and you are very pretty

SING ME BACK HOME

Merle is my absolute #1 favorite singer of all time. I didn't know what "Sing me back to life" was though haha

Even in his older years this is probably the best he ever did this song

So sad yet so beautiful

You REALLY should hear his song "Misery & Gin"

Britts awesome

Mama tried is 🔥

Hag has a voice.

In the sixties we listened to the Animals, Frank Sinatra, Burl Ives, the Temptations, Dean Martin, the Rolling Stones and many others all in a row on the radio. We were nothing if not diverse.

I read that this actually happened to Merle when he was in prison, and this was what he wrote based on his own experience.

Merle rhymes with curl

I think I’ll just stay here and drink is a good song of Haggards to react to

Check out the sound of a steel guitar also a dibro.

Wake Up , it's all in the movies, are two really goods ones with horns

Late to the party, but Peace, Love!!

Merle was a great story teller. Another story teller is Tom T. Hall. You'll love him too.

Rip 🪦 🙏🏻😭❤️Merle haggard

Merle's eldest son, Marty Haggard, sings this song after telling the true story behind it.

I would love for you to hear the Grateful Dead's cover of sing me back home

Try Dwight Yoakam. I like She wore red dresses.

This version is spiritual

When people say, "I like all music but country music".... I always ask, have you listened to Merle Haggard?

Can't go wrong with Merle

Love your reactions, I really do. But please, there are no violins in country music. That beautiful instrument you're listening to is a fiddle.

Listen to the original recording. He swapped the lyrics up in this version

Please react to Merle’s “Uncle Lem”

please review 'if I could fly' by Merle

I saw Haggard along with The Judds in 86. Hag had like a ten piece band with horns included. No smoke, no special lights…he just wakes in stage and sang the songs he had written. He wrote about his life and always told the truth. ❤️

@donjulio4025

7 ай бұрын

he never had horns, he had one saxophone

you need to listen to merl haggard christmas silver bells is tremendous.

try some early stuff like old man from the mountain or okie from muskogee

Time to do Death Row by Chris Stapleton. He describes what it would be like to be on Death Row.

Merle is one of the greatest country singers ever! That being said I’ve never enjoyed his live performances. He’s much better in studio IMO. ✌️

@bighousegroove

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't disagree more. Especially as he was older, like in this performance, it just carries a different weight for me.

@martyhall6486

Жыл бұрын

The poetry of the common man they called him

Check out what steel guitar is. You keep mentioning the sound.

Listen to are the good time really over

Listen to some people saying Merrill’s name because you’re saying it wrong. Bless your heart.

There's not a banjo on that stage. What I think you're hearing is a steel guitar, the man sitting behind Merle with the big white hat is playing it. I'll give you two links so you'll hear the difference. Barbra Mandrell - Steel Guitar Rag kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmaBwaxqZt2fo84.html

@coy0te9

Жыл бұрын

Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Earl Scruggs kzread.info/dash/bejne/c36Dq9OmnKycZbw.html

React to a younger Merle this one is when he had lung cancer sang all the way to the end

Rip rabbit if it wasn’t for you Merle wouldn’t of made it out of San Quentin 1:50

The Title Is Sing Me Back Home,Not Sing Me Back To Life

When you say his name, "Mayrel", you should pronounce it "Murle Haggard". I am not trying to sound critical, just helping out! ❤😊

Poet

They dont come any better than the Hag

This song was about Merl Haggard best friend in prison true story go back to the late 60s all the way to his death a while back, he is one of my favorite of all time.

Greetings from Moscow Russia. I like your reactions. Подписался. С уважением. Aslan

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the party 🎉🎉

Do one called Harold's supper service it from the 70s.