Merle Haggard Working on Four New Albums at Age 77 — rollingstone.com

At 77 years old, Merle Haggard is still the running kind — running from show to show at an age when most men might happily stick closer to home. The Country Music Hall of Famer, who plays Nashville's Ryman Auditorium this week and is also doing press for a Buddy Holly tribute album to which he has contributed, is five decades into his storied career, with hundreds of legendary songs to chose from to perform. The poet of the common man, responsible for such classics as "Workin' Man Blues," Okie From Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me," remains just as dedicated to songwriting, too. But he does admit to running just a little more carefully these days.

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