another class of people
put us somewhere just below
I’ve been meaning to write about Merle Haggard’s “Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck was still Silver),” but it deserves more words than I can give it now. I’ll get to it next week, but here’s Hag’s tribute to his mother’s sacrifices for her family. If the honest working man nostalgia of “Are the Good Times” strikes this listener as partaking too much of early 80s conservatism, “Hungry Eyes” voices a subtle and dignified populism.
Merle Haggard - Hungry Eyes [buy]
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