Merle Haggard | Kennedy Center Honors

The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors
The Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, DC
December 5, 2010

00:00 Introduction (hosted by Vince Gill)
01:48 Video montage (Merle Haggard's biography)
05:51 Silver Wings (Kris Kristofferson & Miranda Lambert)
07:55 Workin' Man Blues (Brad Paisley & Vince Gill)
10:05 (Today) I Started Loving You Again (Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson)
12:39 Ramblin' Fever (Willie Nelson, Kid Rock & Jamey Johnson with All-Stars)

PERSONNEL
Vince Gill – vocals, guitar
Kris Kristofferson – vocals, guitar
Miranda Lambert – vocals
Brad Paisley – vocals, guitar
Sheryl Crow – vocals
Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar
Kid Rock – vocals, guitar
Jamey Johnson – vocals, guitar
Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
Rob Mathes – piano
Michael Bearden – electric organ, keyboards
Stuart Duncan – fiddle (violin)
Mickey Raphael – harmonica
Zev Katz – bass guitar
Kenny Aronoff – drums
Neal Coomer – backing vocals
Tabitha Fair – backing vocals

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 | Oildale, California, U.S. – April 6, 2016 | Palo Cedro, California, U.S.) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launched a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class; these occasionally contained themes contrary to the anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboardall-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010); a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006); a BMI Icon Award(2006); and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977); Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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