Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

(2010)

★ 6 IMDb · 110 votes

Genres: Music, Documentary

Year: 2010

Runtime: 82 мин

Country: Germany, United States of America

Director: Gandulf Hennig

Cast: Merle Haggard, Dave Alvin, Роберт Дюваль, Кит Ричардс, John Fogerty, Alison Krauss

Plot

Haggard actually lived the rambling, gambling, love ‘em and leave ‘em, often brutal life that remains the bedrock of country music lyrics – he hopped his first freight train at the age of 10, became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster. Serious criminal charges followed, including car theft. He was, literally, in the inmate audience in 1959, when Johnny Cash gave his New Year’s Day concert in San Quentin – and, as he’s said repeatedly, “my life changed forever.”