The Last Outlaw: Music – Barbara Lewis: Singer/Songwriter

Here is a.really insightful look at the life and career of a long-standing pillar of the country music world. Still singing at 75…

“…Merle Haggard doesn’t want to tell his story anymore. “They don’t want to hear about the easy part, the good days that you did,” he says. “They want to hear about the places they haven’t been. The pain they haven’t felt.”

And if he should be persuaded to share himself one more time…well, in his sixty-eight years he has never been the kind of man to approach anything with half a heart. But it hurts. On the third morning I’ve made my way to the modest hillside house in the idyllic Northern California countryside near Lake Shasta, where he lives on 200 acres with his fifth wife, Theresa, and two teenage children, it turns out that he has tried to cancel my visit, but the message hasn’t reached me. He invites me in anyway.”