Merle died

[Walden Pond]

Another one of the greats gone. Figured he was about next. Hell, I don't know if there are any great ones left now. Might have been the last living one.

Here's to the Okie from Muskogee. I usually drink diet cherry, but this is all I could find.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

A complicated man, that was Merle. It's probably a good thing his record company wouldn't release "Irma Jackson", or you would instead remember him as a n!gger lover. But that's why Merle was great, he wrote as he saw things and not as what the radio wanted to play. He just sang the world as he saw it. You know it was real because even the hippies loved "Okie from Muskogee"
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[andy4theherd]

 

[andy4theherd]

written ~1961 (can't find confirmation) and not released until 1972 due to objections from record company (Capital).

 

[sistersville]

Saw him live probably a dozen times and he only got .better. same age dad would have been