American Masters

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself

American Masters' documentary about the country music legend Merle Haggard, often called "the poet of the common man," features interviews with comrades and fellow musicians including Robert Duvall, John Fogerty, Kris Kristofferson, Keith Richards, Tanya Tucker, and Dwight Yoakam. The people with whom he was raised - his juvenile delinquency and incarcerations - still inform his creativity.

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19m 17s

Watch film extras and footage from the cutting room floor from "Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself." The film features archival footage and interviews with Merle Haggard and his family, Robert Duvall, John Fogerty, Kris Kristofferson, Keith Richards, Tanya Tucker and more.

Previews + Extras

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    Filmmaker of Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

    S24 E4 - 4m 49s

    Gandulf Hennig, the director of AMERICAN MASTERS Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself premiering July 21, 2010 at 9pm on PBS(check local listings), explains his film making process and shares anecdotes about what it's like to interview and film a maverick country musician such as Haggard.

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    Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself - Preview

    S24 E4 - 30s

    Hailed as "country music's Frank Sinatra" in a recent review of his latest release I AM WHAT I AM (Vanguard Records), American Masters celebrates this "Lonesome Fugitive" in Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself premiering Wednesday, July 21 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings.)

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