Tom Waits pens touching tribute to Merle Haggard
20 April 2016, 17:04
| Written by
Laurence Day
Tom Waits has paid tribute to legendary country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard.
Writing in Rolling Stone, Waits explains how the Bakersfield Sound pioneer made him "feel a whole lot better about living in a place called National City."
Haggard passed away earlier this month aged 79.
Read Waits' tribute below via Rolling Stone.
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