Merle Haggard – Live from Austin, TX (CD) venue-wetlands Dancing Through Life (7:37)

Dancing Through Life (7:37)

from Garcia and company deployed on every song that makes this one another must-have from this ongoing series

Today's single

the beginning was the end

Relics (subtitle: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios) was released on 14 May in the UK and 15 July in the United States

Merle Haggard – Live from Austin, TX (CD) venue-wetlands Dancing Through Life (7:37)Country music rarely gets more honest than Merle Haggard in front of a live audience, and the Austin City Limits taping captured him at a moment when his catalog already stretched deep enough to fill a career retrospective. A Bakersfield original who wrote from lived experience, whether prison, poverty, or patriotism, Haggard brought a weight to these songs that no studio session could fully contain. LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX recorded Oct. 30,1985 features