American Masters pays tribute to a country music patriarch and legend

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself American Masters

Premiered July 21, 2010
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Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself

American Masters' documentary about the country music legend Merle Haggard, often called "the poet of the common man," features interviews with comrades and fellow musicians including Robert Duvall, John Fogerty, Kris Kristofferson, Keith Richards, Tanya Tucker, and Dwight Yoakam. The people with whom he was raised - his juvenile delinquency and incarcerations - still inform his creativity.

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American Masters, committed to producing comprehensive film biographies about the broad cast of characters who comprise our cultural history.

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