Merle Haggard is a Recording Academy/GRAMMY.com contributor.
Sometime around 1956, I picked up a copy of Country Song Roundup. For you new kids, that was a song magazine that was a must-have for an aspiring songwriter. And it was important to me whose names were written at the bottom of the songs.At the time I was kinda out of touch, up the river, incarcerated. Little things meant…
(In 2012 George Jones was honored with The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. The following tribute penned by Merle Haggard ran in the GRAMMY Awards program book that year. Jones died April 26 at the age of 81.)Sometime around 1956, I picked up a copy of Country Song Roundup. For you new kids, that was a song magazine that was…
