Merle Haggard was an escape artist. The future country music legend broke out of juvenile hall and prison 17 times by his own count as a teenager and young man. But his greatest escape was getting out of Oildale, the hardscrabble town in California where he grew up, the son of refugees from the Dust […]
Ethan Hawke On His Merle Haggard Documentary ‘Highway 99: A Double Album’: “He Gave Me So Much Material” – Telluride Film Festival
