Merle
Haggard, one of the most successful singers in the history of country
music, a contrarian populist whose songs about his scuffling early life
and his time in prison made him the closest thing that the genre had to a
real-life outlaw hero, died at his home in California, on Wednesday, his 79th birthday.
His
death was confirmed by his agent, Lance Roberts. Mr. Haggard had
recently canceled several concerts, saying he had double pneumonia.
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