Merle Haggard Learning to Live With Myself (2010)

Haggard actually lived the rambling gambling love em and leave em often brutal life that remains the bedrock of country music lyrics he hopped his first freight train at the age of 10 became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster Serious criminal charges followed including car theft He was literally in the inmate audience in 1959 when Johnny Cash gave his New Years Day concert in San Quentin and as hes said repeatedly my life changed forever