SEAN WILENTZ

Labor Day Special: Merle Haggard

As a kickoff to the Labor Day weekend, here’s Merle Haggard in Austin in 1978, playing “Working Man’s Blues.”

Plenty of Merle this weekend, and Muddy and Hank and Little Walter and Levon … and Modern Times, too.

Posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 12:37 am. Filed under: Blog, Uncategorized Tags: Labor Day, Merle Haggard, Working Man's Blues RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to “Labor Day Special: Merle Haggard”

1. Hermenautic Circle blog » “Working Man’s Blues” says:

   September 3, 2010 at 7:21 pm

   [...] on 03 Sep 2010 An appropriate sign-off for the weekend, via the historian Sean Wilentz: Merle Haggard, in Austin, Texas, performing "Working Man's Blues." [...]

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2. Shawn says:

   September 4, 2010 at 1:32 pm

   So nice..thanks Sean..

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