“I was dumb as a rock when I wrote “Okie From Muskogee,” said Merle Haggard in 2003, after more than four decades of reflecting on one of his most famous songs. Co-written with Roy Edward Burris, “Okie From Muskogee” was the title track of country outlaw‘s first live album with his band The Strangers in […]
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