“[In 1969] Merle Haggard…. introduced the newly penned composition to a live audience at the noncommissioned officers club in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. ‘It was a small club and the audience had been exceptionally dead,’ Haggard later told a reporter. ‘But then we sang “Okie,” and the whole place went berserk’…. “Besieged, Haggard stiffened…. Within […]
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From Fort Bragg NCO club to Kennedy Center
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged fort bragg nco club, kennedy center honors, merle haggard, okie from muscogee, peter la chapelle, proud to be an okie on December 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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