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Merle Haggard
born 1937
Oildale, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Born in a converted railroad boxcar in Oildale to Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, the Okie of the song, literally. He was in San Quentin at twenty for a burglary attempt, saw Johnny Cash play there, and came out to write the Bakersfield sound.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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