Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Merle Haggard
Country music legend -- singer, songwriter, fiddler and more -- via Spin. A giant. Thirty-eight number-one hits belong to him. He helped create the Bakersfield sound, and was an outlaw-country pioneer. He was an iconoclast, a jailbird, an alcoholic -- and a true artist of the human heart.
