Merle Haggard's My House of Memories

by Merle Haggard, Tom Carter, Tom Carter

Book Overview

Country music's award-winning and best-selling recording artist, Merle Haggard, brings us his long-awaited new autobiography, Merle Haggard's My House of Memories--a riveting account of Haggard's extremely turbulent and successful life. Picking up where his 1982 autobiography, Sing Me Back Home, left off, Haggard recounts his earliest childhood memories, revealing previously untold stories about his birth and troubled upbringing in a converted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060193085
• ISBN13: 9780060193089
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Meryl's book

I'm a big Meryl fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book. It's well written, and good reading for anyone who likes autobiography.

Wonderful!!

This book is a super autobiographical story of the greatest legend in country music. He tells his life story in much the way that he writes songs, relaxed, heart-felt, and very honest. This book is a page-turner and a must have! I only wish I could get it autographed.

From One Bakersfield Boy to Another

Merle's genius for lyric and creativity shines through some of the rough and ugly stories that help us understand him. A lot of the language is rough but it is part of the story that better defines the experiences that made Merle who he is. There are many times throughout the book where Merle's descriptions and thoughts ring with poetic flare. I grew up in Bakersfield and often heard stories about the legendary Blackboard, Lucky Spot and Texas Barrell House on Union. I have family that are rumored to have sung with him at times and used to watch Merle play before he was starting out. I could appreciate many of the stories described in the book and have worked the same oilfields and packing sheds he describes. I don't live there anymore but I do go back and visit.Over the course of the book it becomes clear how Merle has been able to completely turn around his life around and gain control of his finances, his family, his career and most importantly his spirituality. I enjoyed the book very much. I grew up listening to Merle Haggard. I wish I could meet him someday, one ol' Bakersfield boy to another and just pick the guitar with him.

My version of the man "The Hag"

Honest,raw,direct,entertaining. I read this book "My House of Memories: For the Record" in three hours, never putting it aside once. Merle Haggard has "been there, done that" and more. He puts on no airs about where he has come from or what he has done. The man is a genius in writing talent and the greatest voice I have ever heard. Most interesting and entertaining book. Thank you Merle Haggard. Linda D. Smith

Get to know Merle Haggard, you'll never forget him!

Through the hobo jungles to performing at the white house. Merle Haggard has lived a life most of us only read about or see on the big screen. Born in a boxcar, he lost his father at the age of nine. This sent him on a downhill fall that landed him inside San Quentin Penitentiary at twenty years old. Upon his release from prison he was determined to make a go in the music business. After forty one number one singles and millions of dollars (most of which was sqaundered away) to his current happy home with wife number five and there two children. Merle Haggard has done it all.