{"product_id":"the-running-kind-listening-to-merle-haggard-hardback-9781477322369","title":"The Running Kind; Listening to Merle Haggard (Hardback) 9781477322369","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Running Kind\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eListening to Merle Haggard\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Cantwell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477322369, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Running Kind\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive book on Merle Haggard, illuminating the art of country songwriting through the work of one poet with a guitar who both challenged and emboldened aspects of the patriarchy while complicating our understanding of patriotism.\u003c\/div\u003e— Alice Randall\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA clear, unflinchingly critical, reading of the songs—in Cantwell's pages they are creative acts, not real, disguised, or fake autobiography—and one that lets the songs go anywhere: from a subtle yet flesh-and-blood class analysis, to an argument against the authenticity argument, to a focus on precisely how a song feels its way into its own skin, its own body (making you always want more…)\u003c\/div\u003e— Greil Marcus\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn the 2013 iteration of this pioneering book, David Cantwell astutely outlined Merle Haggard's life while giving the artistic legacy that his many albums constitute the detailed attention that legacy deserved. In this expanded revision, he rethinks the story to argue that Haggard wasn't merely a great American singer and songwriter. He was a great American artist—period.\u003c\/div\u003e— Robert Christgau\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOne of the best music books I've read in a long time.\u003c\/div\u003e— Dave Marsh\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCantwell captures why Haggard's best-known songs still matter while never shying away from honest critiques of weaker selections that never made it into the classic country canon. Ultimately, this warts-and-all look at a half-century-spanning back catalog gives its subject his due.\u003c\/div\u003e— Wide Open Country\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSharp-eyed and sharp-eared insight...abounds in [Cantwell's] book...\u003ci\u003eThe Running Kind\u003c\/i\u003e paints Merle Haggard in a broad and nuanced American cultural landscape, rather than the tight corners that Nixon, the counterculture, country fans, and Haggard himself frequently painted him into.\u003c\/div\u003e— New York Journal of Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIf you want to read the definitive book on Merle Haggard, this is the one...The beauty of Cantwell's book lies in his in-depth, astute, and entertaining close readings of Hag's songs and the covers of those songs by others, from Dylan to Bobby 'Blue' Bland.\u003c\/div\u003e— No Depression\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA remarkable book by one of Merle's most astute scholars.\u003c\/div\u003e— Lawyers, Guns \u0026amp; Money\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn essays on the songs, eras and influences that shaped Haggard's life and legacy, Cantwell makes a case for Haggard's genius not by leaving out the contradictions that are evident in his work, but by shining a light on them.\u003c\/div\u003e— Holler\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Belmont Award for the Best Book on Country Music, International Country Music Conference\/Belmont University\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  New and expanded biography of one of country music's most celebrated singer-songwriters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than a hundred country hits (thirty-eight at number one), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of ten thousand concerts, induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and songs covered by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Bobby \"Blue\" Bland, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Running Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, a new edition that expands on his earlier analysis and covers Haggard's death and afterlife as an icon of both old-school and modern country music, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard's music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music: songs that helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including \"Okie from Muskogee,\" \"Sing Me Back Home,\" \"Mama Tried,\" and \"Working Man Blues,\" among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions—most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed—that define not only Haggard's music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. \"Silver Wings\": Kansas City, Missouri, September 14, 2001\u003cbr\u003e  1. \"Hungry Eyes,\" 1969\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Roots of His Raising\u003cbr\u003e  3. \"Mama Tried,\" 1968\u003cbr\u003e  4. Toward the Bad He Kept on Turnin'\u003cbr\u003e  5. He Loves Them So: A Playlist of Early Influences\u003cbr\u003e  6. \"Leonard,\" 1981\u003cbr\u003e  7. The Bakersfield Sound and Fury\u003cbr\u003e  8. Someone Told His Story in a Song\u003cbr\u003e  9. \"I Started Loving You Again,\" 1968\u003cbr\u003e  10. The Legend of Bonnie and Him\u003cbr\u003e  11. \"Sing Me Back Home,\" 1967\u003cbr\u003e  12. They Won't Let His Secret Go Untold\u003cbr\u003e  13. He's Living in the Good Old Days: Countrypolitan, Country Soul, Country Rock\u003cbr\u003e  14. \"Workin' Man Blues,\" 1969\u003cbr\u003e  15. He Likes Living Right and Being Free\u003cbr\u003e  16. \"Irma Jackson,\" 1969\u003cbr\u003e  17. His Fightin' Side\u003cbr\u003e  18. He'd Rather Be Gone\u003cbr\u003e  19. \"It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad),\" 1972\u003cbr\u003e  20. He Wishes He Was Santa Claus\u003cbr\u003e  21. Merle Loves Dolly\u003cbr\u003e  22. Songs He'll Always Sing\u003cbr\u003e  23. He Takes a Lot of Pride in What He Is (Hint: He's a White Boy)\u003cbr\u003e  24. \"A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today,\" 1977\u003cbr\u003e  25. His Country Girl with Hot Pants On\u003cbr\u003e  26. He's Always on a Mountain When He Falls\u003cbr\u003e  27. \"Rainbow Stew,\" 1981\u003cbr\u003e  28. He Wishes a Buck Was Still Silver (Not Really) and Likes the Taste of Yesterday's Wine (Really)\u003cbr\u003e  29. \"Kern River,\" 1985\u003cbr\u003e  30. He's Going Where the Lonely Go\u003cbr\u003e  31. \"Me and Crippled Soldiers,\" 1990\u003cbr\u003e  32. The Hag versus the Man in Black\u003cbr\u003e  33. He'll Never Be Gone? Merle Haggard in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e  34. \"If I Could Only Fly,\" 2001\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue. Cuba, Missouri: July 15, 2010\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Selected Discography\u003cbr\u003e  Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695291527448,"sku":"9781477322369","price":23.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-running-kind-listening-to-merle-haggard-hardback-9781477322369","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}