Friday, January 2, 2009
National Skyline / Whatevs Merle's World: the Hag Ditches the Schwag
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Hey, hey, hey-ee-yay-ee. I no longer smoke weed every day.
Well, Merle Haggard may not smoke marijuana in Muskogee, but apparently he's been smoking it all the time everywhere else for the past 40 years. According to recent reports, the Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, who underwent surgery for lung cancer just weeks ago, will play two shows this weekend without--for the first time in his life--first smoking either tobacco or marijuana. From Reuters:
"...it's gonna be interesting as to what kind of a show comes out of this body that's used to performing the other way." Haggard, who once derided pot-smoking hippies in his 1969 hit "Okie From Muskogee," got hooked on marijuana after a doctor said it was a good substitute for his Valium habit.
So, marijuana can loosen up and curb the Valium dependency of a country-music legend, eliminate the alleged eating disorder of a pop-rock superstar or inspire a freaking kick-ass contest giveaway item for a local rock band. What can't weed do, I ask you? Except, of course, kill you when in brownie form.
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I heard the bit about the lemon, too. Talk about the first-ever super-depressing lemon party.
I went to a taping of Real Time with Bill Mahr once and Merle Haggard was interviewed via satellite. The whole thing was an uncomfortable trainwreck because Haggard was too stoned to form complete sentences.
In the Maher interview he did claim he is "seldom in Muskogee". I wonder if they still have him on painkillers though.
wtf are you talking about, timmy? if the hag's dead, someone should tell him to update his website, and to stop playing shows and doing interviews.
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