BIANCULLI: Today, we're going to listen to our 1995 interview with country music star Merle Haggard. Jon Caramanica, in The New York Times, once described him as, quote, "the country music titan who ...

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Instead, he’s parked outside a Gulf Coast casino, wondering why the battery on his tour bus keeps conking out.“It’s not much fun,” Haggard says of this nomad’s life - a career the beleaguered country ...