Tag: Willie Nelson

The time I drove across the Cascade Mountains and the ‘Red Headed Stranger’ rode shotgun

Greg Lamm's avatar November 16, 2016

I recently made a long, solo drive from Seattle over the Cascade Mountains, and I found a great road trip companion: Willie Nelson’s “Red Headed Stranger.” In Eastern Washington and Oregon on my way to the Columbia River Gorge the haunting songs with sparse arrangements …

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Seven things you may not know about the life and music of country legend Merle Haggard

Greg Lamm's avatar March 10, 2016

With songs like “Tulare Dust” and “They’re Tearing the Labor Camps Down” Haggard – like Guthrie – captured in simple lyric and melody the same sentiments reflected in the prose of John Steinbeck about the struggles of migrant workers.

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