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“I Wasn’t Really That Bad a Guy”: This Outlaw Country Legend Escaped Jail 17 Times Before Johnny Cash Set a Fire Under Him
How Johnny Cash's performance at San Quentin prison turned Merle Haggard away from a life crime and toward a career in music.
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The Song Kenny Rogers Wrote After Sharing a Flight With Waylon Jennings’ Wife to Nashville—and Later Covered by Waylon, Reba, and Dolly Parton
"It started about Waylon [Jennings], but by the time it finished, it was about me," said Kenny Rogers about his 1977 song.